Patents by Inventor John Paul Alex

John Paul Alex has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9472187
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to training a speech recognition system. One example method includes receiving a collection of speech data items, wherein each speech data item corresponds to an utterance that was previously submitted for transcription by a production speech recognizer. The production speech recognizer uses initial production speech recognizer components in generating transcriptions of speech data items. A transcription for each speech data item is generated using an offline speech recognizer, and the offline speech recognizer components are configured to improve speech recognition accuracy in comparison with the initial production speech recognizer components. The updated production speech recognizer components are trained for the production speech recognizer using a selected subset of the transcriptions of the speech data items generated by the offline speech recognizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Olga Kapralova, John Paul Alex, Eugene Weinstein, Pedro J. Moreno Mengibar, Olivier Siohan, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
  • Publication number: 20160267903
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to training a speech recognition system. One example method includes receiving a collection of speech data items, wherein each speech data item corresponds to an utterance that was previously submitted for transcription by a production speech recognizer. The production speech recognizer uses initial production speech recognizer components in generating transcriptions of speech data items. A transcription for each speech data item is generated using an offline speech recognizer, and the offline speech recognizer components are configured to improve speech recognition accuracy in comparison with the initial production speech recognizer components. The updated production speech recognizer components are trained for the production speech recognizer using a selected subset of the transcriptions of the speech data items generated by the offline speech recognizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Olga Kapralova, John Paul Alex, Eugene Weinstein, Pedro J. Moreno Mengibar, Olivier Siohan, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
  • Patent number: 9378731
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to training a speech recognition system. One example method includes receiving a collection of speech data items, wherein each speech data item corresponds to an utterance that was previously submitted for transcription by a production speech recognizer. The production speech recognizer uses initial production speech recognizer components in generating transcriptions of speech data items. A transcription for each speech data item is generated using an offline speech recognizer, and the offline speech recognizer components are configured to improve speech recognition accuracy in comparison with the initial production speech recognizer components. The updated production speech recognizer components are trained for the production speech recognizer using a selected subset of the transcriptions of the speech data items generated by the offline speech recognizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Olga Kapralova, John Paul Alex, Eugene Weinstein, Pedro J. Moreno Mengibar, Olivier Siohan, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
  • Publication number: 20160093294
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to training a speech recognition system. One example method includes receiving a collection of speech data items, wherein each speech data item corresponds to an utterance that was previously submitted for transcription by a production speech recognizer. The production speech recognizer uses initial production speech recognizer components in generating transcriptions of speech data items. A transcription for each speech data item is generated using an offline speech recognizer, and the offline speech recognizer components are configured to improve speech recognition accuracy in comparison with the initial production speech recognizer components. The updated production speech recognizer components are trained for the production speech recognizer using a selected subset of the transcriptions of the speech data items generated by the offline speech recognizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Olga Kapralova, John Paul Alex, Eugene Weinstein, Pedro J. Moreno Mengibar, Olivier Siohan, Ignacio Lopez Moreno