Patent ID: 8805871

Claim:
A method comprising: accepting a search query in a first language variety, the search query being in a form of at least one of: text and audio; accessing a corpus of material in the first language variety; determining similarity of a second language variety with respect to a first language variety; choosing the second language variety based on determining that the first language variety baseforms can be obtained via data from the second language variety, and at least one selection criterion; the at least one selection criterion comprising a ranking from among ranked pairs of language varieties, the ranked pairs being ranked on a basis of determined similarity between language varieties; obtaining first language variety baseforms via data obtained from the second language variety; thereupon building a first language variety phonetic model, based on the first language variety baseforms obtained via data obtained from the second language variety; and executing an audio search based on the accepted search query, via employing the first language variety phonetic model and the second language variety.