Nuance Communications, Inc.

Harman Becker Automotive Systems Gmbh

Udo Haiber

Franz Gerl

Lars König

Andreas Löw

Markus Schwarz

Christian Hillebrecht

Matthias Schulz

Marc Biedert

Chistian Hillebrecht

The invention provides a speech recognition method for selecting a combination of list elements via a speech input, wherein a first list element of the combination is part of a first set of list elements and a second list element of the combination is part of a second set of list elements, the method comprising the steps of receiving the speech input, comparing each list element of the first set with the speech input to obtain a first candidate list of best matching list elements, processing the second set using the first candidate list to obtain a subset of the second set, comparing each list element of the subset of the second set with the speech input to obtain a second candidate list of best matching list elements, and selecting a combination of list elements using the first and the second candidate list.

Speech recognition method for selecting a combination of list elements via a speech input

A system is provided for recognizing speech for searching a database. The system receives speech input as a spoken search request and then processes the speech input in a speech recognition step using a vocabulary for recognizing the spoken request. By processing the speech input words recognized in the speech input and included in the vocabulary are obtained to form at least one hypothesis. The hypothesis is then utilized to search a database using the at least one hypothesis as a search query. A search result is then received from the database and provided to the user.

System for recognizing speech for searching a database

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Udo Haiber