Motorola Corporation

Michael Van Wie

Senaka Balasuriya

Tasos Anastasakos

A method and apparatus for selective distributed speech recognition includes an embedded speech recognition engine () and a dialog manager (), such as a browser, coupled to the embedded speech recognition engine (). The method and apparatus further includes the dialog manager () being operably couple able to at least one external speech recognition engine (), such as a WLAN speech recognition engine () or a network speech recognition engine (). The method and apparatus further includes preference information (), environment information () and a speech input () all provided to the dialog manager (). The dialog manager (), in response to the preference information () and the environment information (), provides the speech input () to the embedded speech recognition engine (), the WLAN speech recognition engine () or the network speech recognition engine ().

Method and apparatus for selective distributed speech recognition

An apparatus and method for selective distributed speech recognition includes a dialog manager () that is capable of receiving a grammar type indicator (). The dialog manager () is capable of being coupled to an external speech recognition engine (), which may be disposed on a communication network (). The apparatus and method further includes an audio receiver () coupled to the dialog manager () wherein the audio receiver () receives a speech input () and provides an encoded audio input () to the dialog manager (). The method and apparatus also includes an embedded speech recognition engine () coupled to the dialog manager (), such that the dialog manager () selects to distribute the encoded audio input () to either the embedded speech recognition engine () or the external speech recognition engine () based on the corresponding grammar type indicator ().

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Michael Van Wie