Patent 9153230 was granted and assigned to Google on October, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for executing a mobile speech recognition software application based on a multi-layer neural network model includes providing to a hardware accelerator in the mobile device to classify one or more frames of an audio signal. The hardware accelerator includes a multiplier-accumulator (MAC) unit to perform matrix multiplication operations involved in computing the neural network output.