Patent ID: 8175885

Claim:
A method comprising: retrieving, from a content provider, first program guide information related to prospective programming of multimedia content; storing, in a database, a speech grammar generated from the first program guide information; receiving, over a network, a digitized speech signal corresponding to a spoken command received via a voice interface of a remote control associated with a television, wherein receiving the digitized speech signal includes: establishing, via a customer router, a Session Initiation Protocol SIP session with the remote control and receiving, over the network via the SIP session, the digitized speech signal from the remote control over a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) network via the customer router; converting the digitized speech signal into text, using speech recognition; identifying one or more terms in the text that most closely match the stored speech grammar; generating command information, applicable to a set-top box associated with the television, for performing a search using the identified one or more terms, of second program guide information related to scheduled programming of the multimedia content; and sending the command information to the set-top box, wherein the set-top box is configured to control presentation of the multimedia content, based on the scheduled programming, via the television, in accordance with results of the search.