Searching Spoken Media According to Phonemes Derived From Expanded Concepts Expressed As Text

• US 20110040774A1
• Filed: 08/14/2009
• Published: 02/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Raytheon Company (Rtx Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Raytheon Company (Rtx Corporation)
• Inventors: Peoples, Bruce E., Barr, Kristopher D., Johnson, Michael R.
• Application Number:
  US12/541,244
• Publication Number:
  US 20110040774A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/765
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/685 using automatically derived transcript of audio data, e.g. lyrics speech recognition G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/025 Phonemes, fenemes or fenones being the recognition units

Abstract

According to one embodiment, searching media includes receiving a search query comprising search terms. At least one search term is expanded to yield a set of conceptually equivalent terms. The set of conceptually equivalent terms is converted to a set of search phonemes. Files that record phonemes are searched according to the set of search phonemes. A file that includes a phoneme that matches at least one search phoneme is selected and output to a client.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a search query comprising one or more search terms;

expanding at least one search term to yield a set of conceptually equivalent terms;

converting the set of conceptually equivalent terms to a set of search phonemes;

searching a plurality of files according to the set of search phonemes, the plurality of files stored in one or more tangible storage media, a file recording one or more phonemes;

selecting a file that includes a phoneme that matches the at least one search phoneme; and

outputting the file to a client.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

translating the selected file from a foreign language to a native language.

3. The method of claim 1, the file comprising a spoken media file.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

translating at least one phoneme of the selected file to one or more graphemes.

5. The method of claim 1, the outputting the file to the client further comprising:

playing at least one phoneme of the selected file.

6. The method of claim 1, the outputting the file to the client further comprising:

displaying one or more graphemes corresponding to at least one phoneme of the selected file.

7. The method of claim 1:

further comprising;

generating a query conceptual graph for the one or more search terms, the query conceptual graph comprising a plurality of graph terms;

the expanding the at least one search term further comprising;

generating an expanded query conceptual graph from the query conceptual graph and the set of conceptually equivalent terms; and

the converting the set of conceptually equivalent terms further comprising;

converting at least one graph term of the graph terms of the expanded query conceptual graph to the at least one search phoneme.

8. The method of claim 1:

further comprising;

generating a query conceptual graph for the one or more search terms, the query conceptual graph comprising a plurality of graph terms; and

identifying a set of conceptually equivalent terms for each graph term of one or more graph terms of the plurality of graph terms;

the expanding the at least one search term further comprising;

generating an expanded query conceptual graph from the query conceptual graph and the set of related terms by expanding the each graph term with the set of conceptually equivalent terms; and

the converting the set of conceptually equivalent terms further comprising;

converting at least one graph term of the graph terms of the expanded query conceptual graph to the at least one search phoneme.

9. The method of claim 1, the searching the plurality of files according to the at least one search phoneme further comprising:

generating a corresponding file conceptual graph for each file of a subset of the files; and

selecting a file if the corresponding file conceptual graph matches a query conceptual graph generated for the search query.

10. The method of claim 1, the searching the plurality of files according to the at least one search phoneme further comprising:

generating a corresponding expanded file conceptual graph for each file of a subset of the files; and

selecting a file if the corresponding expanded file conceptual graph matches an expanded query conceptual graph generated for the search query.

11. An apparatus comprising:

one or more tangible storage media configured to store;

a plurality of files, a file recording one or more phonemes; and

computer executable instructions when executed operable to;

receive a search query comprising one or more search terms;

expand at least one search term to yield a set of conceptually equivalent terms;

convert the set of conceptually equivalent terms to a set of search phonemes;

search the plurality of files according to the set of search phonemes;

select a file that includes a phoneme that matches the at least one search phoneme; and

output the file to a client.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, the instructions further operable to:

translate the selected file from a foreign language to a native language.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, the file comprising a spoken media file.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, the instructions further operable to:

translate at least one phoneme of the selected file to one or more graphemes.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, the instructions further operable to output the file to the client further by:

playing at least one phoneme of the selected file.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, the instructions further operable to output the file to the client further by:

displaying one or more graphemes corresponding to at least one phoneme of the selected file.

17. The apparatus of claim 11, the instructions further operable to:

generate a query conceptual graph for the one or more search terms, the query conceptual graph comprising a plurality of graph terms;

expand the at least one search term by;

generating an expanded query conceptual graph from the query conceptual graph and the set of conceptually equivalent terms; and

convert the set of conceptually equivalent terms by;

converting at least one graph term of the graph terms of the expanded query conceptual graph to the at least one search phoneme.

18. The apparatus of claim 11, the instructions further operable to:

generate a query conceptual graph for the one or more search terms, the query conceptual graph comprising a plurality of graph terms; and

identify a set of conceptually equivalent terms for each graph term of one or more graph terms of the plurality of graph terms;

expand the at least one search term by;

generating an expanded query conceptual graph from the query conceptual graph and the set of related terms by expanding the each graph term with the set of conceptually equivalent terms; and

convert the set of conceptually equivalent terms by;

converting at least one graph term of the graph terms of the expanded query conceptual graph to the at least one search phoneme.

19. The apparatus of claim 11, the instructions further operable to search the plurality of files according to the at least one search phoneme by:

generating a corresponding file conceptual graph for each file of a subset of the files; and

selecting a file if the corresponding file conceptual graph matches a query conceptual graph generated for the search query.

20. The apparatus of claim 11, the instructions further operable to search the plurality of files according to the at least one search phoneme by:

generating a corresponding expanded file conceptual graph for each file of a subset of the files; and

selecting a file if the corresponding expanded file conceptual graph matches an expanded query conceptual graph generated for the search query.

21. An apparatus comprising:

one or more tangible storage media configured to store;

a plurality of files, a file recording one or more phonemes and comprising a spoken media file; and

computer executable instructions when executed operable to;

receive a search query comprising one or more search terms;

generate a query conceptual graph for the one or more search terms, the query conceptual graph comprising a plurality of graph terms;

expand at least one search term to yield a set of conceptually equivalent terms, the at least one search term expanded by;

generating an expanded query conceptual graph from the query conceptual graph and the set of conceptually equivalent terms; and

convert the set of conceptually equivalent terms to a set of search phonemes, the set of conceptually equivalent terms converted by;

converting at least one graph term of the graph terms of the expanded query conceptual graph to the at least one search phoneme;

search the plurality of files according to the set of search phonemes;

select a file that includes a phoneme that matches the at least one search phoneme; and

output the file to a client.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, the instructions further operable to:

generate a query conceptual graph for the one or more search terms, the query conceptual graph comprising a plurality of graph terms;

expand the at least one search term by;

generating an expanded query conceptual graph from the query conceptual graph and the set of conceptually equivalent terms; and

convert the set of conceptually equivalent terms by;

converting at least one graph term of the graph terms of the expanded query conceptual graph to the at least one search phoneme.

23. The apparatus of claim 21, the instructions further operable to:

generate a query conceptual graph for the one or more search terms, the query conceptual graph comprising a plurality of graph terms; and

identify a set of conceptually equivalent terms for each graph term of one or more graph terms of the plurality of graph terms;

expand the at least one search term by;

generating an expanded query conceptual graph from the query conceptual graph and the set of related terms by expanding the each graph term with the set of conceptually equivalent terms; and

convert the set of conceptually equivalent terms by;

converting at least one graph term of the graph terms of the expanded query conceptual graph to the at least one search phoneme.

24. The apparatus of claim 21, the instructions further operable to search the plurality of files according to the at least one search phoneme by:

generating a corresponding file conceptual graph for each file of a subset of the files; and

selecting a file if the corresponding file conceptual graph matches a query conceptual graph generated for the search query.

25. The apparatus of claim 21, the instructions further operable to search the plurality of files according to the at least one search phoneme by:

generating a corresponding expanded file conceptual graph for each file of a subset of the files; and

selecting a file if the corresponding expanded file conceptual graph matches an expanded query conceptual graph generated for the search query.