Patent ID: 7302392
Filing Date: 2007-11-27
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. In a computer system comprising a processor and software comprising a set of instructions stored on a machine-readable medium implementing a voice command platform for voice-based applications, said voice command platform including a speech recognition engine, a voice browser having global-level grammar comprising a set of grammar elements and said voice applications having application-level grammar comprising a set of application-level grammar elements, the improvement comprising: providing in said voice command platform a programming feature by which developers of said voice applications can weight global-level grammar elements relative to the application-level grammar and/or application level grammar elements, whereby said speech recognition engine is more likely to properly determine whether voice input from a user phonetically similar to said global-level grammar elements and/or said application level grammar or grammar elements should trigger events associated with said global-level grammar elements or said application level grammar or grammar elements depending on the weighting of said global level grammar elements.