Abstract
The patent’s assignee for patent number 12033618 is Amazon Technologies Inc. (Se attle, Washington,United States).News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“Speech recognition systems have progressed to the point wh ere humans can interact with computingdevices using their voices. Such systems employ techniques to identify the words spoken by a humanuser based on the vari ous qualities of a received audio input. Speech recognition combined with natura llanguage understanding processing techniques enable speech-based user control of a computing device toperform tasks based on the user’s spoken commands. Spee ch recognition and natural language understandingprocessing techniques may be r eferred to collectively or separately herein as speech processing.Speech proces sing may also involve converting a user’s speech into text data which may then b e providedto various text-based software applications. Speech processing may be used by computers, hand-held devices,telephone computer systems, kiosks, and a wide variety of other devices to improve human-computerinteractions.”
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