Systems and methods for phonetic-based natural language understanding

A method comprising:

• accessing, using one or more servers, a database of media items to identify a media content item that will become available at a first time;
• determining, using a machine learning model associated with the one or more servers, a plurality of phonetic representations corresponding to text associated with the media content item;
• tracking, using the one or more servers, a plurality of voice queries related to the media content item, respectively received from a plurality of user devices, wherein each voice query of the plurality of voice queries corresponds to a respective phonetic representation of the plurality of phonetic representations, and wherein the tracking is performed over a predefined period of time prior to the first time when the media content item will become available;
• based at least in part on the tracking:
• determining a respective use frequency for each respective phonetic representation of the plurality of phonetic representations;
• and
• selecting a particular phonetic representation based on the determined respective use frequency for each respective phonetic representation of the plurality of phonetic representations;
• after the predefined period of time, updating the database, using the one or more servers, to associate the media content item with the selected particular phonetic representation;
• and
• outputting an identifier of the media content item based at least in part on receiving, at the one or more servers, a subsequent voice query of a user device of the plurality of user devices matching the selected particular phonetic representation.

A system comprising:

• a memory;
• an input/output (I/O) circuitry;
• and
• a control circuitry configured to:
• access, using one or more servers, a database of media items to identify a media content item that will become available at a first time, wherein the database is stored in the memory;
• determine, using a machine learning model associated with the one or more servers, a plurality of phonetic representations corresponding to text associated with the media content item;
• track, using the one or more servers, a plurality of voice queries related to the media content item, respectively received from a plurality of user devices, wherein each voice query of the plurality of voice queries corresponds to a respective phonetic representation of the plurality of phonetic representations, and wherein the tracking is performed over a predefined period of time prior to the first time when the media content item will become available;
• based at least in part on the tracking:
• determine a respective use frequency for each respective phonetic representation of the plurality of phonetic representations;
• and
• select a particular phonetic representation based on the determined respective use frequency for each respective phonetic representation of the plurality of phonetic representations;
• after the predefined period of time, update the database, using the one or more servers, to associate the media content item with the selected particular phonetic representation;
• and
• wherein the I/O circuitry is configured to:
• output an identifier of the media content item based at least in part on receiving, at the one or more servers, a subsequent voice query of a user device of the plurality of user devices matching the selected particular phonetic representation.