Patent ID: 7243070

Claim:
A speech recognition system for speech-controlled inputting of short messages into a telecommunications terminal, comprising: a speech recognition module operating in a speaker-independent manner, in which a specific vocabulary for creating short messages is stored; a text input interface for at least one of directly inputting text and transferring text from a short message; at least one of a text and phoneme converter module, which is connected to the text input interface; an auxiliary speech recognition module which operates in speaker-dependent fashion and converts the text into a phonetic script which is adapted to the speech recognition module; a vocabulary control module for at least one of supplementing the vocabulary and replacing elements of the vocabulary by the text which has been one of input and transferred; a message vocabulary buffer for temporarily storing the vocabulary of short messages which have been at least one of received and transmitted; and a vocabulary comparator unit, connected to both the message vocabulary buffer and the speech recognition module, for comparing the stored vocabulary items and for outputting to the vocabulary control module words which have newly occurred in the short messages.