Patent ID: 7010490

Claim:
In a speech recognition system disposed within a portable computing device, a method of completing user input comprising: (a) receiving a user input, said user input specifying at least one character corresponding to at least one recognizable word selection of said speech recognition system of said portable computing device; (b) comparing said user input with a set of selections in said speech recognition system; (c) comparing the set of selections against a threshold value representing a maximum number of selections that the portable computing device is able to process within a desired period of time; when the set of selections exceeds the threshold value, prompting for additional user input and performing steps (a), (b), and (c) using additional input received responsive to the prompting step; when the set of selections favorably compares with the threshold value, limiting said set of selections to an available set of selections which correspond to said specified at least one character; receiving a user spoken utterance; and, matching said received user spoken utterance wit a selection in said available set of selections.