Patent ID: 8560323

Claim:
A method for a computing device in a voice-based service to provide relevant promotional material based on spoken information, the method comprising: receiving a spoken voice message intended for one or more recipients that is provided by a user during a telephone call; automatically transcribing the spoken voice message via speech-to-text translation in order to produce a text memo; analyzing contents of the text memo to identify an expression present in the text memo, the expression comprising at least one word and being associated with one or more pieces of promotional material; using the identified expression to select a piece of promotional material relevant to the voice message; and sending the selected piece of promotional material with a portion of the text memo to at least one of the recipients in an electronic message, wherein a recipient is the user, and wherein the user has previously registered with the voice-based service and provided the voice-based service with one or more electronic message addresses for the user to which the electronic message is sent.