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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2011

Filed:

Nov. 09, 2006
Applicants:

Ramon Prieto, Mountain View, CA (US);

M. Kashif Imam, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Carsten Bergmann, San Jose, CA (US);

Wai Yin Cheung, San Mateo, CA (US);

Carly Williams, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ramon Prieto, Mountain View, CA (US);

M. Kashif Imam, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Carsten Bergmann, San Jose, CA (US);

Wai Yin Cheung, San Mateo, CA (US);

Carly Williams, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Volkswagen of America, Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/28 (2006.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G10L 13/06 (2006.01); G10L 21/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/18 (2006.01); G06F 17/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A motor vehicle has a speech interface for an acoustic input of commands for operating the motor vehicle or a module of the motor vehicle. The speech interface includes a speech recognition database in which a substantial portion of commands or command components, which can be input, are stored in a version according to a pronunciation in a first language and in a version according to a pronunciation in at least a second language, and a speech recognition engine for automatically comparing an acoustic command to commands and/or command components, which are stored in the speech recognition database, in a version according to the pronunciation in the first language and to commands and/or command components, which are stored in the speech recognition database, in a version according to the pronunciation in the second language.


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