15. A computer system for verifying factual assertions in natural language, the computer system comprising: one or more computer processors; one or more computer readable storage media; program instructions stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to monitor a natural language input, wherein the natural language input includes an audio input; program instructions to process the audio input into a digital input by an audio input processing module; program instructions to transmit the digital input to a transcription module; program instructions to transcribe the digital input into a natural language text input by a speech transcription engine within the transcription module which matches the audio input to one or more acoustic models detailed by an electronic database; program instructions to identify a phrase within the natural language text input, wherein the phrase comprises a subject, an object, and a relation; program instructions to determine if the phrase is a statement of opinion; program instructions to determine if the phrase is an indication of a consequence of a prior statement; program instructions to identify the phrase as a factual assertion if the phase is not a statement of opinion and not an indication of a consequence of a prior statement; program instructions to verify the factual assertion in the natural language text input; and program instructions to output a notification to a user of a result of the verification.
16. The computer system in accordance with claim 15 , wherein: program instructions to determine if the phrase is a statement of opinion comprises program instructions to identify a predetermined word and/or word combinations indicative of a statement of opinion; and program instructions to determine if the phrase is an indication of a consequence of a prior statement comprises program instructions to identify a predetermined word and/or word combinations indicative of a consequence of a prior statement.