System and method for enhancing voice-enabled search based on automated demographic identification
View Patent ↗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.
1. A method comprising:
receiving, from a speech recognition system, recognized speech;
identifying information about a speaker of the recognized speech from the recognized speech; and
submitting the recognized speech and the information to a question-answering engine which selects and outputs a response associated with the recognized speech based on the recognized speech and the information.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information comprises demographic features.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the demographic features comprise one of age, gender, socio-economic group, nationality, and origin.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying of the information is based on voice characteristics of the recognized speech.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the question-answering engine is integrated with the speech recognition system.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising storing the information for future use.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the storing of the information is performed in accordance with a privacy policy.
8. A system comprising:
a processor; and
a computer-readable storage medium having instruction stored which, when executed by the processor, result in the processor performing operations comprising:
receiving, from a speech recognition system, recognized speech;
identifying information about a speaker of the recognized speech from the recognized speech; and
submitting the recognized speech and the information to a question-answering engine which selects and outputs a response associated with the recognized speech based on the recognized speech and the information.
9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the information comprises demographic features.
10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the demographic features comprise one of age,
gender, socio-economic group, nationality, and origin.
11. The system of claim 8 , wherein identifying of the information is based on voice characteristics of the recognized speech.
12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the question-answering engine is integrated with the speech recognition system.
13. The system of claim 8 , the computer-readable storage medium having additional instructions which result in the operations further comprising storing the information for future use.
14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the storing of the information is performed in accordance with a privacy policy.
15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instruction stored which, when executed by a computing device, result in the computing device performing operations comprising:
receiving, from a speech recognition system, recognized speech;
identifying information about a speaker of the recognized speech from the recognized speech; and
submitting the recognized speech and the information to a question-answering engine which selects and outputs a response associated with the recognized speech based on the recognized speech and the information.
16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the information comprises demographic features.
17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the demographic features comprise one of age, gender, socio-economic group, nationality, and origin.
18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein identifying of the information is based on voice characteristics of the recognized speech.
19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the question-answering engine is integrated with the speech recognition system.
20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , the computer-readable storage medium having additional instructions which result in the operations further comprising storing the information for future use.