Patent Document ID: 20140129220
Application ID: 14152136
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for executing a voice search, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a spoken query; converting the spoken query into a text query using a speech recognition process, the speech recognition process using a language model that assigns a score to respective text strings, the score of each respective text string being used to compute a probability of correct conversion of the spoken query to the text query; identifying acoustic features of a voice signal corresponding to the spoken query; classifying the spoken query into at least one voice cluster based on the identified acoustic features of the voice signal, the voice cluster having a respective language model and a respective text cluster; receiving search results from an information retrieval system based on the text query, each respective search result having a ranking indicating a measure of importance relative to other search results; and modifying rankings of the search results based on evaluating the search results with the respective text cluster of the voice cluster.