Patent ID: 8055502

Claim:
A voice dialing method, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a first utterance followed by a subsequent utterance from a user via a microphone associated with an automatic speech recognition system; (b) determining a first recognition result for the first utterance and a subsequent recognition result for the subsequent utterance using a processor associated with the automatic speech recognition system; (c) communicating the recognition results to the user via an output device associated with the automatic speech recognition system; (d) receiving from the user a first indication that at least one of the recognition results is incorrect; (e) populating a rejection reference in memory associated with the automatic speech recognition system with the subsequent recognition result after receiving the first indication; (f) receiving from the user a second indication that at least one of the recognition results is incorrect after receiving the first indication; (g) clearing the subsequent recognition result from the rejection reference and populating the rejection reference with the first recognition result after receiving the second indication; (h) receiving a correction utterance from the user; and then (i) processing the correction utterance based on the first recognition result being in the rejection reference.