Patent ID: 7039629

Claim:
A method for inputting data into a system comprising the steps of: in response to a voice input by a user, identifying one or more terms, which are as appropriate as possible for the voice input based on a confidence value; determining from stored data records, data records matching the identified terms as well as probability values assigned to the matching data records, wherein each of said probability values is calculated for each stored data record as a ratio of the number of times the matching data record has been used during a certain period of time in the immediate recent past to the total number of times all the stored data records have been used during the certain period so as to describe the relative probability of the matching data record being used again; calculating an overall probability from said confidence value of the identified term and the probability value of the matching data record; processing said identified terms according to said overall probability; and wherein the voice input is first of all subjected to speaker identification, and the subsequent voice recognition process is carried out, taking into account the result of the speaker identification.