Patent ID: 9558740
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G10L

Claim:
1. A method for performing automatic speech recognition (ASR) processing on an utterance including a search request, the method comprising: receiving, from a mobile device, audio data corresponding to an utterance, the utterance comprising a search request; performing ASR processing on the audio data to determine ASR results, the ASR results comprising a first ASR hypothesis, a second ASR hypothesis and a third ASR hypothesis; determining a disambiguation group, wherein the disambiguation group comprises the first ASR hypothesis, the second ASR hypothesis and the third ASR hypothesis; processing, by a search engine: determining that the second ASR hypothesis is similar to the third ASR hypothesis as a result of overlap between the second plurality of entities and the third plurality of entities; determining a revised disambiguation group, wherein the revised disambiguation group comprises the first ASR hypothesis and the second ASR hypothesis; and sending, to the mobile device, data corresponding to the revised disambiguation group for disambiguation.