Systems and methods for identifying a media asset from an ambiguous audio indicator

A method for identifying a media asset, the method comprising:

• capturing, from an environment where a user is present, an audio recording;
• retrieving information about a user's location including retrieving, from a profile of the user, a location history of the user and an application usage history corresponding to the user;
• identifying a source of media available at the user's location;
• determining content accessible from the source of media;
• comparing the audio recording to the content to identify the media asset having a characteristic associated with the audio recording;
• upon determining a match between the audio recording and the content, generating for display a recommendation of the media asset;
• searching the application usage history for one or more application usage records corresponding to when the user was present at the user's location;
• and
• in response to identifying the one or more application usage records:
• determining an application type, an application usage status and an application usage time duration for each of the one or more application usage records;
• searching, an application usage table, for a distraction score corresponding to each application type;
• computing a distraction metric based on the distraction score corresponding to each application type, the respective application usage status and the respective application usage time duration;
• and
• in response to determining that the distraction metric is higher than a distraction threshold, determining that the user was not exposed to the retrieved content.

A system for identifying a media asset, the system comprising:

• a storage device;
• and
• control circuitry configured to:
• capture, from an environment where a user is present, an audio recording;
• retrieve information about a user's location;
• identify a source of media available at the user's location;
• determine content accessible from the source of media;
• compare the audio recording to the content to identify the media asset having a characteristic associated with the audio recording by:
• determining a plurality of music tunes transmitted with the content;
• comparing the frequency domain representation of the plurality of tones with each music tune of the plurality of music tunes to generate a respective similarity metric;
• and
• in response to determining that the respective similarity metric is greater than a similarity threshold, identifying a respective music tune from the media asset corresponds to the audio recording provided by the user;
• upon determining a match between the audio recording and the content, generate for display a recommendation of the media asset;
• identify, from the audio recording, a tune having audio characteristics that match with vocal characteristics of the user, wherein the tune includes a plurality of tones;
• in response to identifying the tune, generate a frequency domain representation of the plurality of tones;
• and
• transmit a query based on the generated frequency domain representation to a music database.

A system for identifying a media asset, the system comprising:

• a storage device;
• and
• control circuitry configured to:
• capture, from an environment where a user is present, an audio recording;
• retrieve information about a user's location including retrieving, from a profile of the user, a location history of the user and an application usage history corresponding to the user;
• identify a source of media available at the user's location;
• determine content accessible from the source of media;
• compare the audio recording to the content to identify the media asset having a characteristic associated with the audio recording;
• and
• upon determining a match between the audio recording and the content, generate for display a recommendation of the media asset;
• search the application usage history for one or more application usage records corresponding to when the user was present at the user's location;
• and
• in response to identifying the one or more application usage records:
• determine an application type, an application usage status and an application usage time duration for each of the one or more application usage records;
• search, an application usage table, for a distraction score corresponding to each application type;
• compute a distraction metric based on the distraction score corresponding to each application type, the respective application usage status and the respective application usage time duration;
• and
• in response to determining that the distraction metric is higher than a distraction threshold, determine that the user was not exposed to the retrieved content.