公开(公告)号：US20170300487A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-19

申请号：US15638047

申请日：2017-06-29

Applicant: Interactions LLC

Inventor： Michael J. Johnston ,  Srinivas Bangalore ,  Junlan Feng ,  Taniya Mishra

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  G10L15/22

CPC classification number: G06F16/433 ,  G06F16/90332 ,  G06F16/90335 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G10L2015/227

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for approximating responses to a user speech query in voice-enabled search based on metadata that include demographic features of the speaker. A system practicing the method recognizes received speech from a speaker to generate recognized speech, identifies metadata about the speaker from the received speech, and feeds the recognized speech and the metadata to a question-answering engine. Identifying the metadata about the speaker is based on voice characteristics of the received speech. The demographic features can include age, gender, socio-economic group, nationality, and/or region. The metadata identified about the speaker from the received speech can be combined with or override self-reported speaker demographic information.