Apparatus, systems and methods for acquiring commentary about a media content event

A system for acquiring responses from a consumer pertaining to a subject media content event that has been previously consumed by the consumer, the system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more memory devices having stored thereon instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
• detect sound using a microphone of a consumer conversation acquisition system;
• determine a characteristic of the detected sound;
• determine that the consumer is in the receptive state when the characteristic of the detected sound is music;
• determine that the consumer is in the unreceptive state when the characteristic of the detected sound is an ongoing conversation between the consumer and another person;
• present a query session to the consumer when the associated state information for the consumer is the receptive state, including audible questions presented to the consumer via at least one speaker that pertain to the subject media content event that the consumer has previously consumed;
• acquire response information that corresponds to a response of the consumer to each one of the presented audible questions of the query session, wherein acquiring the response information to at least one of the presented audible questions of the query session comprises:
• recording at least one of a verbal response of the consumer, a physical response of the consumer, a captured video of the consumer, or a series of still images of the consumer;
• and
• associating the at least one of the recorded sound, the recorded physical response, the recorded video, or the series of still images of the consumer with the presented audible question;
• and
• store the acquired response information for each of the presented audible questions.