US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on March 24 for "Automatic speech recognition using multiple language models" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,577, issued on March 24, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatic speech recognition using multiple language models" was invented by Thai Son Nguyen (Karlsruhe, Germany), Jie Pu (Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) and Sebastian Stuker (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving an audio stream comprising speech; generating, by automatic speech recognition ("ASR") software, a plurality of hypotheses, each hypothesis comprising a transcription of a first portion of the speech; rescoring, using a first trained language model, each hypothesis of the plurality of hypoth...