ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,687, issued on May 12, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA (Hefei, China) and IFLYTEK Co. LTD. (Hefei, China).

"Speech recognition method, apparatus and device, and storage medium" was invented by Xin Fang (Hefei, China) and Junhua Liu (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in the present application are a speech recognition method, apparatus and device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring a speech feature of target mixed speech and a speaker feature of a specified speaker; taking the direction of tending to a target speech feature as an extraction direction, and according to ...