Method and apparatus for discovering trending terms in speech requests
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1. A method for discovering trending terms in automatic speech recognition, the method comprising:
- at an electronic device having a processor and memory;
identifying a candidate term based on a frequency of occurrence of the term in an electronic data source;
in response to identifying the candidate term, searching for the candidate term in an archive of speech traffic of an automatic speech recognizer using phonetic matching; and
in response to finding the candidate term in the archive, generating a notification comprising the candidate term.
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Abstract
Systems and processes are disclosed for discovering trending terms in automatic speech recognition. Candidate terms (e.g., words, phrases, etc.) not yet found in a speech recognizer vocabulary or having low language model probability can be identified based on trending usage in a variety of electronic data sources (e.g., social network feeds, news sources, search queries, etc.). When candidate terms are identified, archives of live or recent speech traffic can be searched to determine whether users are uttering the candidate terms in dictation or speech requests. Such searching can be done using open vocabulary spoken term detection to find phonetic matches in the audio archives. As the candidate terms are found in the speech traffic, notifications can be generated that identify the candidate terms, provide relevant usage statistics, identify the context in which the terms are used, and the like.
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1. A method for discovering trending terms in automatic speech recognition, the method comprising:
at an electronic device having a processor and memory; identifying a candidate term based on a frequency of occurrence of the term in an electronic data source; in response to identifying the candidate term, searching for the candidate term in an archive of speech traffic of an automatic speech recognizer using phonetic matching; and in response to finding the candidate term in the archive, generating a notification comprising the candidate term. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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24. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions, which when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to:
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identify a candidate term based on a frequency of occurrence of the term in an electronic data source; in response to identifying the candidate term, search for the candidate term in an archive of speech traffic of an automatic speech recognizer using phonetic matching; and in response to finding the candidate term in the archive, generate a notification comprising the candidate term.
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25. A system comprising:
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one or more processors; memory storing computer-readable instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to; identify a candidate term based on a frequency of occurrence of the term in an electronic data source; in response to identifying the candidate term, search for the candidate term in an archive of speech traffic of an automatic speech recognizer using phonetic matching; and in response to finding the candidate term in the archive, generate a notification comprising the candidate term.
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