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Systems and methods for providing information discovery and retrieval

  • US 8,862,615 B1
  • Filed: 07/25/2013
  • Issued: 10/14/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2007
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method, comprising:

  • receiving an utterance captured via a consumer device;

    providing a media request to at least one server based at least in part on the utterance, including at least;

    performing, by the at least one server, one or more of pitch shifting or time shifting of the utterance via distributing a plurality of test samples of the utterance to a plurality of processing devices for testing in parallel, each test sample differently shifted in at least one of pitch or time;

    establishing a plurality of confidence values corresponding to the plurality of test samples based at least in part on the testing in parallel; and

    selecting one test sample as the shifted media request based at least in part on the plurality of confidence values;

    decoding the shifted media request at least via iteratively decoding portions of the media request;

    discovering at least some information using the decoded media request;

    preparing one or more instructions for consumer device access to the at least some information; and

    communicating the prepared one or more instructions to at least one consumer device.

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