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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2018
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian Strope, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Francoise Beaufays, Mountain View, CA (US);
William J. Byrne, Davis, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of providing a personal directory service includes receiving, over the Internet, from a user terminal, a query spoken by a user, where the query spoken by the user includes a speech utterance representing a category of persons. The method also includes determining a geographic location of the user terminal, recognizing the category of persons with the speech recognition engine based on the speech utterance representing the category of persons a listing of persons within or near the determined geographic location matching the query to select persons responsive to the query spoken by the user, and sending to the user terminal information related to at least some of the responsive persons.