Patent ID: 8340958

Claim:
A method for recognizing a user's speech input comprising the following steps: utilizing a navigation unit for: detecting navigation information of a trip to a predetermined destination, and modifying language model statistics in a language model database containing a list of entries for list entries that are in the language model database and that are contained in the navigation information; detecting whether words in the navigation information are contained in the list of entries, where any words in the navigation information that are not contained in the list of entries are added to the list of entries as new entries, and where the likelihood of the new entries is set higher than an average likelihood of the entries in the list of entries; detecting the user's speech input; and recognizing the user's speech input by comparing the user's speech input to the list of entries using the modified language model statistics to determine the most likely entry best matching the user's speech input, where the navigation information contains at least one of the following information: an overall travel time of the trip, the current travel time of the trip, and an expected arrival time.