Patent ID: 9460716
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G10L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: accessing audio data that encodes one or more utterances that were spoken by a user of a social network during one or more interactions between the user and the social network; obtaining data indicative of one or more social network connections of the user of the social network, each of the social network connections being associated with an additional user of the social network; identifying a demographic category that (i) characterizes at least one of the additional users associated with the one or more social network connections and (ii) is otherwise absent from a social network profile associated with the user of the social network; in response to identifying the demographic category that (i) characterizes the at least one of the additional users and (ii) is otherwise absent from a social network profile associated with the user of the social network, associating, in the social network profile of the user of the social network, the user of the social network with the demographic category that characterizes the at least one of the additional users and that was otherwise absent from the social network profile associated with the user of the social network; for each of multiple demographic categories that the social network profile indicates are associated with the user of the social network, including the demographic category that characterizes the at least one of the additional and that was otherwise absent from the social network profile associated with the user of the social network, generating an acoustic model that is specific to the demographic category, based at least on the audio data that encodes the one or more utterances that were spoken by the user of the social network during the one or more interactions between the user and the social network; and using one or more of the generated acoustic models in transcribing a subsequently received utterance of the user or of another user of the social network that shares a demographic category with the user of the social network.