Patent ID: 7120585

Claim:
A speech recognition system comprising: a line of service including: a first server object coupled to a telephone network for receiving a voice data message from said telephone network; a second server object having a first connection to said first server object for receiving said voice data message from said first server object and converting said voice data message to a phonetic data message; a third server object having a second connection to said second server object for receiving said phonetic data message from said second server object and converting said phonetic data message to a syntactic data message; a fourth server object having a third connection to said third server object for receiving said syntactic data message from said third server object and converting said syntactic data message to a semantic data message that includes a plurality of possible valid interpretations of said voice data message; and a control monitor for controlling the configuration of said first, second, third and fourth server objects in said line of service; wherein said first, second and third connections are formed over a first computer network.