System And Method For Enhancing Voice-Enabled Search Based On Automated Demographic Identification
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 recognized speech;
identifying information about a speaker of the recognized speech from the recognized speech;
identifying other users associated with the speech recognition system;
identifying metadata characteristics of the other users; and
submitting the recognized speech, the information, and the identified metadata characteristics to an engine which outputs a response associated with the recognized speech using the recognized speech, the information, and the identified metadata characteristics.
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 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 recognized speech;
identifying information about a speaker of the recognized speech from the recognized speech;
identifying other users associated with the speech recognition system;
identifying metadata characteristics of the other users; and
submitting the recognized speech, the information, and the identified metadata characteristics to an engine which outputs a response associated with the recognized speech using the recognized speech, the information, and the identified metadata characteristics.
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 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 recognized speech;
identifying information about a speaker of the recognized speech from the recognized speech;
identifying other users associated with the speech recognition system;
identifying metadata characteristics of the other users; and
submitting the recognized speech, the information, and the identified metadata characteristics to an engine which outputs a response associated with the recognized speech using the recognized speech, the information, and the identified metadata characteristics.
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 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.