Patent ID: 7203646
Filing Date: 2007-04-10
Classification: G06F,G10L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for enabling a browser program to interact with a website using speech utterances, the system comprising: a speech recognition engine configured to generate a recognized speech query from an utterance; said speech recognition engine being further configurable such that speech processing operations can be distributed between a client device and a server device as required to achieve real-time recognition of a speech query; and a natural language engine configured to determine a meaning of said recognized speech query and provide a first response thereto; a web page routine for presenting one or more web pages to the browser program, wherein data content for said one or more web pages is controlled by said recognized speech query and/or said first response of said natural language engine; wherein said recognized speech queries can be presented to both said natural language engine as well as to a text based query database for identifying a meaning of said recognized speech query, such that a second response can be provided by said database for at least some recognized speech queries prior to said first response of said natural language engine.