Patent ID: 7110963

Claim:
A method of using a speech recognition system for enabling a human server in entering restaurant food orders as a background task unobtrusive to a customer, comprising the steps of: providing at least one server with a non-obtrusive receiver-transmitter device which includes at least a microphone for communicating order information from the server and a speaker for receiving confirmation of the order information by the server; providing an order processor having a speech recognition software module for receiving the order information communication from the microphone of the server by listening in real time during the server's interaction with the customer and for processing the communication from the server according to a previous spoken word training operation to provide order information to the order processor; and confirming the order information to the server from the order processor by providing an echo back message to the server; wherein communicating the order information and confirming the order information occur non-obtrusively as background tasks to an order dialog between the at least one server and the customer.