INTERACTIVE REFORMULATION OF SPEECH QUERIES

Patent №

US 10,176,219

Granted

2019-01-08

Filed 2015

Owner

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

AI components

6

ml · nlp · speech · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14657568

Methods and systems are provided for providing alternative query suggestions. For example, a spoken natural language expression may be received and converted to a textual query by a speech recognition component. The spoken natural language expression may include one or more words, terms, and/or phrases. A phonetically confusable segment of the textual query may be identified by a classifier component. The classifier component may determine at least one alternative query based on identifying at least the phonetically confusable segment of the textual query. The classifier may further determine whether to suggest the at least one alternative query based on whether the at least one alternative query is sensical and/or useful. When it is determined to suggest the at least one alternative query, the at least one alternative query may be provided to and displayed on a user interface display.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06F 16/3322G06F 16/243G06F 16/3329G06F 16/3344G06F 16/90332G10L 25/48G10L 15/26

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Planning1.00
AI hardware0.98
Machine learning0.52
Vision0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

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