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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2010
Srinivas Bangalore, Morristown, NJ (US);
Junlan Feng, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Michael Johnston, New York, NY (US);
Taniya Mishra, New York, NY (US);
Srinivas Bangalore, Morristown, NJ (US);
Junlan Feng, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Michael Johnston, New York, NY (US);
Taniya Mishra, New York, NY (US);
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for approximating relevant responses to a user query with voice-enabled search. A system practicing the method receives a word lattice generated by an automatic speech recognizer based on a user speech and a prosodic analysis of the user speech, generates a reweighted word lattice based on the word lattice and the prosodic analysis, approximates based on the reweighted word lattice one or more relevant responses to the query, and presents to a user the responses to the query. The prosodic analysis examines metalinguistic information of the user speech and can identify the most salient subject matter of the speech, assess how confident a speaker is in the content of his or her speech, and identify the attitude, mood, emotion, sentiment, etc. of the speaker. Other information not described in the content of the speech can also be used.