Patent ID: 7430511

Claim:
A integrated speech-input enabled computing system adapted to receive both spoken commands and spoken data, comprising: a set of executable software constructs adapted to execute within a processor having a memory, comprising an operating system having a graphic user interface, supporting user interaction with a plurality of concurrently active software constructs comprising at least one application which executes under the operating system, a focus being granted to a software construct based on at least a user speech input; a stored representation of a set of command grammars corresponding to commands for at least a portion of the plurality of software constructs, at least a portion of which represent commands currently available for processing; a speech analyzer for processing the user speech input based on at least a portion of said stored representation, to determine if a user speech input corresponds to a represented command grammar available for processing, and if so processing a corresponding command by the operating system or the respective application to which it relates, and otherwise presenting to the software construct with focus the processed user speech input as text data.