Patent Document ID: 9495350
Application ID: 13617553

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: associating speakers with respective segments of an audio speech file to yield associated speaker segments; generating, via a processor using automatic speech recognition of audio in the audio speech file, expertise vectors for one or more of the speakers, the expertise vectors comprising scores based on: (i) number of times the speakers have spoken about a topic in the audio speech file by searching the associated speaker segments for a term associated with the topic, and (ii) at least one of word classes, usages, styles, or behaviors of the speakers; and ranking the speakers as experts based on the expertise vectors; presenting, by the processor, the ranking of the speakers as experts based on the expertise vectors; tagging the associated speaker segments having the term with keyword tags; and matching a respective segment from the associated speaker segments with a speaker, the respective segment having a keyword tag.

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Claim 12:
12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising alerting at least one of the speakers when a user asks a question on the topic.