US 11,983,217 B2
Responding to queries with voice recordings
Sowmya Subramanian, San Francisco, CA (US); Benton DeLoache, Mountain View, CA (US); Lauren Clark, San Francisco, CA (US); Rami Banna, Menlo Park, CA (US); and Igor Benko, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/778,993
Filed by GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 13, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/066221
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 23, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/118595, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0009983 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/635 (2019.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 16/635 (2019.01) [G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method implemented using one or more processors, comprising:
receiving a query provided by a user at an input component of a computing device;
searching a corpus of documents based on the query;
identifying, from the searching, a top-ranked document that contains content that is responsive to the query;
searching a corpus of voice recordings for responsive voice recordings that were created or distributed by an entity that is associated with the content; and
providing, for presentation to the user at an output component of the same computing device or a different computing device, one or more of the responsive voice recordings.