8. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the spoken query from the user comprises receiving the spoken query from a wireless mobile device, and wherein receiving the search results from the information retrieval system based on the text query comprises receiving search results from an open domain search executed by a search engine.
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a microphone of a computing device, a spoken query from a user; processing, by the computing device, the spoken query using parallel processes, wherein a first process of the parallel processes comprises: converting, by the computing device, the spoken query into one or more text strings using a speech recognition process; and assigning, using an initial language model, a score to each of the one or more text strings, the score of each of the one or more text strings being used to compute a probability of correct conversion of the spoken query into the one or more text strings; wherein a second process of the parallel processes comprises: identifying, by the computing device, acoustic features of a voice signal corresponding to the spoken query; and classifying, by the computing device, the spoken query into at least one voice cluster based on the identified acoustic features of the voice signal, the at least one voice cluster having a respective text cluster and a customized language model that reflects characteristics of the user; selecting a text query based on the one or more text strings and the customized language model. receiving, by the computing device, search results from an information retrieval system based on the text query, each of the search results having a ranking indicating a measure of importance relative to other of the search results; and re-ranking, by the computing device, the search results based on re-scoring the search results using the respective text cluster.