Personalized phrase spotting during automatic speech recognition

A method and data processing device for receiving, at a data processor, data that includes at least one personalized phrase. The method includes extracting a personalized phrase from received data. The method includes tracking, via an assigned phrase counter, each occurrence of the personalized phrase in the received data and subsequently received data. The method includes periodically comparing a value of the assigned phrase counter to pre-established count thresholds to determine when a count of the personalized phrase reaches at least one of the pre-established count thresholds. The method includes storing the personalized phrase to a phrase database and linking the personalized phrase to the one or more general phrases in the phrase database. The method includes selectively triggering a contextual response to the data and executing, by the data processor, the corresponding operation. The method includes outputting the contextual response to an output device.