Speaker and call characteristic sensitive open voice search
US8630860B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 3, 2011 |
| Grant date | Jan 14, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 25, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L15/183
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for open-domain voice-enabled searching that is speaker sensitive. Techniques include using speech information, speaker information, and information associated with a spoken query to enhance open voice search results. This includes integrating a textual index with a voice index to support the entire search cycle. Given a voice query, the system can execute two matching processes simultaneously. This can include a text matching process based on the output of speech recognition, as well as a voice matching process based on characteristics of a caller or user voicing a query. Characteristics of the caller can include output of voice feature extraction and metadata about the call. The system clusters callers according to these characteristics. The system can use specific voice and text clusters to modify speech recognition results, as well as modifying search results.
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