Personalized vocabulary for digital assistant

A system for operating an intelligent automated assistant, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the processors to perform operations comprising:
• obtaining a text string from a speech input received from a user;
• interpreting the received text string to derive a representation of user intent, the interpreting based at least in part on a persistent long-term personal memory and a short-term personal memory, wherein the persistent long-term personal memory comprises a plurality of words associated with the user, and wherein the short-term personal memory comprises data relating to a current user session with the automated assistant;
• identifying a task, and at least one parameter for the task, based at least in part on the representation of user intent;
• performing the identified task;
• and
• providing an output to the user, wherein the output is related to the performance of the task.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by an electronic device with one or more processors, cause the processors to perform operations including:

• obtaining a text string from a speech input received from a user;
• interpreting the received text string to derive a representation of user intent, the interpreting based at least in part on a persistent long-term personal memory and a short-term personal memory, wherein the persistent long-term personal memory comprises a plurality of words associated with the user, and wherein the short-term personal memory comprises data relating to a current user session with the automated assistant;
• identifying a task, and at least one parameter for the task, based at least in part on the representation of user intent;
• performing the identified task;
• and
• providing an output to the user, wherein the output is related to the performance of the task.