Patent ID: 7099749

Claim:
An improved vehicle wheel alignment system having a central processing unit for controlling the operation of the vehicle wheel alignment system, the improvement comprising: a communications interface including at least one contact microphone adapted to receive at least one acoustic signal from a vibration transmitting anatomical structure associated with an operator, said at least one contact microphone is configured to produce a data signal representative of said at least one received acoustic signal for communication to said central processing unit; wherein said central processing unit is configured to receive said data signal, and to process said data signal to identify at least one discrete spoken command, said central processing unit further configured with at least one software object which conforms to VoiceXML standards to process said data signal to identify said at least one discrete spoken command; and wherein the central processing unit is configured responsive to said software object to control the operation of at least one component of the wheel alignment system in response to said identified at least one discrete spoken command.