METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SPOKEN SEARCH QUERIES

Patent №

US 8,239,366

Granted

2012-08-07

Filed 2010

Owner

NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

+1 more

AI components

3

nlp · speech · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12877549

Some embodiments relate to a method of performing a search for content on the Internet, in which a user may speak a search query and speech recognition may be performed on the spoken query to generate a text search query to be provided to a plurality of search engines. This enables a user to speak the search query rather than having to type it, and also allows the user to provide the search query only once, rather than having to provide it separately to multiple different search engines.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
AI hardware0.97
Vision0.44
Machine learning0.03
Knowledge representation0.02
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

assignment · 249550531

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

assignment · 654810528

Assignors

SEJNOHA, VLADIMIR, GANONG, WILLIAM F., III, VOZILA, PAUL J., BODENSTAB, NATHAN M., TAM, YIK-CHEUNG

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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