SPEECH-BASED SEARCH USING DESCRIPTIVE FEATURES OF SURROUNDING OBJECTS

摘要

A natural language query arrangement is described for a mobile environment. An automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine can process an unknown speech input from a user to produce corresponding recognition text. A natural language understanding module can extract natural language concept information classifier uses the from the recognition text. A query recognition text and the natural language concept information to assign to the speech input a query intent related to one or more objects in the mobile environment. An environment database contains information descriptive of objects in the mobile environment. A query search engine searches the environment database based on the query intent, the natural language concept information, and the recognition text to determine corresponding search results, which can be to the user.