US Patent 10992807 System and method for searching content using acoustic characteristics

Content, such as communications, can be searched by their acoustic characteristics, among others. A method may include analyzing a plurality of content for at least one of a language characteristic or a non-word symbol within a text of the plurality of content, and an acoustic characteristic, searching the plurality of content using a search string comprising at least one of a language characteristic, or a non-word symbol, and an acoustic characteristic, and presenting a subset of the plurality of content ranked according to a match with the search string. In some cases, a category label is determined for the content and is also used in the search string.