Patent ID: 11862171
Assignee: SAS INSTITUTE INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:
the acoustic model comprises a neural network trained to identify likely speech sounds in the speech audio;
the acoustic model outputs symbols that indicate at least one of graphemes or phonemes describing speech sounds;
the acoustic model comprises a connectionist temporal classification (CTC) output trained to output blank symbols indicative of consecutive instances of a text character;
the second pause detection technique comprises use, within the second thread, of counts of quantities of consecutive blank symbols output by the neural network to identify likely sentence pauses of the second set of likely sentence pauses; and
performing the second sentence pause detection technique comprises the at least one processor being caused to perform, within the second thread, and in parallel with performing the first pause detection technique, further preprocessing operations comprising instantiate an instance of the neural network.