Patent Document ID: 9454959
Application ID: 14440343

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: extracting contextual information from a conversation by performing speech recognition passively in a background while a speech recognition system is inactive from executing speech recognition requests from a user; applying the contextual information to a model of the speech recognition system to enhance analyzing speech directed to the speech recognition system by updating the model of the speech recognition system using the contextual information from the conversation; and processing a speech recognition request from the user, while the speech recognition system is active to execute the speech recognition request, using the updated model of the speech recognition system; wherein the model is at least one of an acoustic model, language model, contextual model, likely words model, vocabulary, domain-specific language model, and domain specific vocabulary.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: collecting contextual information from at least one of a user, user and a third party, one or more third parties, or device outputting audio that can be interpreted as the conversation.