Computer speech recognition and semantic understanding from activity patterns

A method for performing disambiguation to determine a user intent for a user, comprising:

• receiving an indication of a user interaction with a user device, the user interaction associated with an activity performed by the user device, the indication based at least in part on sensor data from one or more sensors associated with the user device;
• determining a set of possible user intents corresponding to the user interaction;
• accessing an activity pattern that is learned for the user;
• determining a future activity event based on the activity pattern that is learned for the user;
• determining from the set of possible user intents, a particular user intent based on the future activity event;
• and
• performing the activity associated with the user interaction based on the determined particular user intent.

A computerized system comprising:

• one or more sensors configured to provide sensor data, each sensor associated with a user device in a set of user devices associated with a user, at least one of the one or more sensors comprising an acoustic sensor configured to convert speech into acoustic information;
• one or more processors;
• and
• computer storage memory having computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, implement a method of recognizing speech, the method comprising:
• a) accessing an user activity pattern that is learned for a user;
• b) predicting a future activity event based on the activity pattern that is learned for the user and a context determined at least in part from the sensor data;
• c) receiving, from the acoustic sensor, acoustic information corresponding to a spoken interaction with a particular user device by the user;
• d) based on an analysis of the acoustic information, determining a plurality of word sequences corresponding to the spoken interaction;
• e) determining from the plurality of word sequences, a word sequence based on the predicted future activity event;
• and
• f) providing the determined word sequence as recognized speech corresponding to the spoken interaction.