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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2016
Applicant:

Soundhound, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bernard Mont-Reynaud, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jun Huang, Fremont, CA (US);

Kiran Garaga Lokeswarappa, Mountain View, CA (US);

Joel Gedalius, Baltimore, MD (US);

Assignee:

SoundHound, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/02 (2006.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G10L 15/06 (2013.01); G10L 25/90 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/02 (2013.01); G06F 17/274 (2013.01); G06F 17/2705 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0276 (2013.01); G10L 15/063 (2013.01); G10L 15/1815 (2013.01); G10L 25/90 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); G10L 2015/025 (2013.01);
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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