Patent ID: 9142219
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, an acoustic input signal at a speech recognizer; identifying, by the computing device, a user that is speaking based on the acoustic input signal; recognizing, by the computing device via the speech recognizer, speech uttered by the user in the acoustic input signal; determining, by the computing device, speaker-specific information previously stored for the user; determining, by the computing device, a set of potential responses based on the recognized speech and the speaker-specific information for the user; ranking, by the computing device, the set of potential responses based on one or more criteria and the speaker-specific information; determining, by the computing device for each response in the set of potential responses, whether the response should be output or should not be output based on the response's ranking; and if the response should be output: