Patent ID: 9576573
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G10L

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for recognizing speech, the method comprising: receiving a spoken query during a web browsing session from a user having associated user profile data; identifying a context of the web browsing session, wherein the context is based at least on a domain name of a web page viewed during the web browsing session; identifying a category for the spoken query based on the context of the web browsing session and the user profile data; identifying a subcategory of the category for the spoken query based on at least one or more page elements of the web page; converting the spoken query to text according to a statistical dialog manager associated with the category and at least one additional statistical dialog manager associated with the subcategory, the statistical dialog manager and the at least one additional statistical dialog manager being utilized to statistically weight terms belonging to the category and the one or more subcategories more than terms in other categories and subcategories; and providing a response to the spoken query.