Patent ID: 7983915

Claim:
A method of generating an audio content index for use by a search engine, the method comprising: (a) determining, with a processor of an audio content search system, a phoneme sequence based on recognized speech from an audio content time segment; (b) identifying, with the processor, k-phonemes which occur within the phoneme sequence; (c) storing, in a memory of the audio content search system, the identified k-phonemes within a data structure such that the identified k-phonemes are capable of being compared with k-phonemes from a search query; (d) including the audio content time segment in an ordered audio content search results set, wherein an order of the audio content time segment is based at least in part on a confidence score of a valid sequence within the audio content time segment; and (e) providing the ordered audio content search results set to a multi-modal search results fusion engine.