1. A system for operating a digital assistant to explore media items, the system comprising: one or more processors; and memory having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: receive, from a user, speech input representing a request for one or more media items; determine whether the speech input corresponds to a user intent of obtaining personalized recommendations for media items; and in response to determining that the speech input corresponds to a user intent of obtaining personalized recommendations for media items: obtain at least one media item from a user-specific corpus of media items, the user-specific corpus of media items generated based on data associated with the user; and provide the at least one media item.