Patent ID: 6985865

Claim:
A voice command system comprising: a user communication interface for communicating with users via a telecommunications network; a processor; an application-processing module executable by the processor to process voice command applications, the voice command applications defining allowed grammars and application logic; a voice-processing module executable by the processor to recognize grammars in speech signals received from a user via the user communication interface; and aliasing-logic executable by the processor, upon recognition of an alias grammar in a speech signal received from the user, to convert the alias grammar to an actual grammar, and to recognize the actual grammar as an allowed grammar defined by a voice command application; wherein the aliasing-logic uses a predefined set of correlations between alias grammars and actual grammars to convert between an alias grammar and an actual grammar; and wherein the processor uses at least a subset of the predefined set of correlations regardless of the user who is communicating with the voice command system and substantially regardless of which voice command application the processor is processing.