ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,866, issued on July 28, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Speech recognition method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Xilin Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Bo Liu (Shenzhen, China), Haipeng Wang (Shenzhen, China), Jianxiong Ma (Shenzhen, China) and Ping Zheng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech recognition method includes acquiring speech data, inputting a speech feature matrix of the speech data to a speech recognition model, the speech feature matrix being used for representing time-domain and frequency-domain features of the speech data, performing attention enco...