Patent ID: 7286989

Claim:
A speech processing system comprising: a plurality of modules of respectively different types, said plurality of modules comprising a plurality of speech recognition modules for respectively different types of speech recognition and a plurality of speech output modules for respectively different types of speech output, each speech output module being capable of outputting oral speech, each of the speech recognition modules and each of the speech output modules being respectively constructed specifically for a different type of speech recognition or speech output; and a selector supplied with an input signal containing information identifying a type needed to process said input signal, said type relating to type of speech recognition and said type of speech output needed to process said input signal, said selector being connected to said plurality of modules and routing said input signal to one of said modules while excluding said input signal from another of said modules, the selector routing said signal based on the type identified in said input signal for processing said input signal only in said one of said modules to which said input signal is routed.