Method and system for building an integrated user profile
US9564123B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 5, 2015 |
| Grant date | Feb 7, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 5, 2035 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L2015/025
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method are provided for adding user characterization information to a user profile by analyzing user's speech. User properties such as age, gender, accent, and English proficiency may be inferred by extracting and deriving features from user speech, without the user having to configure such information manually. A feature extraction module that receives audio signals as input extracts acoustic, phonetic, textual, linguistic, and semantic features. The module may be a system component independent of any particular vertical application or may be embedded in an application that accepts voice input and performs natural language understanding. A profile generation module receives the features extracted by the feature extraction module and uses classifiers to determine user property values based on the extracted and derived features and store these values in a user profile. The resulting profile variables may be globally available to other applications.
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