ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,478, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Enhanced speech-to-text performance with mixed languages" was invented by Peng Xie (Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong), Tsz Wai Chan (Chaiwan, Hong Kong), Xingyuan Liu (Guangdong, China), Kani Chen (Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong) and Yang Wang (Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Training a mixed language speech recognition model, and speech recognition performed by the model, can be enhanced. Model manager can control training and/or operation of the model. Mixed language data generation manager can generat...