Method and apparatus for discovering trending terms in speech requests

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions, which when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to:

• identify a candidate term based on a frequency of occurrence of the term in an electronic data source;
• in response to identifying the candidate term, search for the candidate term in an archive of speech traffic of an automatic speech recognizer using phonetic matching;
• and
• in response to finding the candidate term in the archive, generate a notification comprising the candidate term.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• memory storing computer-readable instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to:
• identify a candidate term based on a frequency of occurrence of the term in an electronic data source;
• in response to identifying the candidate term, search for the candidate term in an archive of speech traffic of an automatic speech recognizer using phonetic matching;
• and
• in response to finding the candidate term in the archive, generate a notification comprising the candidate term.