Patent Document ID: 9542945
Application ID: 14735416

Base Claim:
1. A method of performing speech recognition, the method being performed by an automated speech recognition system, the method comprising: receiving, by the automated speech recognition system, audio data and context data associated with the audio data, wherein the received context data indicates a current context of a device when the device captured the audio data; identifying, by the automated speech recognition system, a topic based on a comparison of the received context data with second context data indicating a previous context of a device, wherein identifying the topic includes: selecting, by the automated speech recognition system, a term based on the comparison between the received context data and the second context data; and in response to selecting the term, selecting, by the automated speech recognition system and as the identified topic, a topic that is associated with the selected term; based on identifying the topic, adjusting, by the automated speech recognition system, a language model based on the identified topic to adjust a likelihood that the language model indicates for one or more terms associated with the topic; determining, by the automated speech recognition system, a transcription of the audio data using the adjusted language model; and outputting, by the automated speech recognition system, the transcription determined using the adjusted language model, the transcription being output as a speech recognition output of the automated speech recognition system.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , comprising: determining, for each of multiple terms, a similarity score that reflects a degree of similarity between (i) context data that is associated with the respective term and (ii) the received context data; and wherein selecting the term based on the comparison between the received context data and the second context data includes: selecting the term from among the multiple terms based at least on the similarity score for the selected term.