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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:
Feb. 16, 2021

Filed:

Jul. 22, 2014
Applicant:

Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);

Inventors:

Jan Kleindienst, Nove Straseci, CZ;

Ladislav Kunc, Hlusice, CZ;

Martin Labsky, Prague, CZ;

Tomas Macek, Prague, CZ;

Assignee:

Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/36 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/334 (2019.01); G06F 16/367 (2019.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to some aspects, a method of searching for content in response to a user voice query is provided. The method may comprise receiving the user voice query, performing speech recognition to generate N best speech recognition results comprising a first speech recognition result, performing a supervised search of at least one content repository to identify one or more supervised search results using one or more classifiers that classify the first speech recognition result into at least one class that identifies previously classified content in the at least one content repository, performing an unsupervised search of the at least one content repository to identify one or more unsupervised search results, wherein performing the unsupervised search comprises performing a word search of the at least one content repository, and generating combined results from among the one or more supervised search results and the one or more unsupervised search results.


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