Patent ID: 7624016

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of querying a user to select from a list in a voice-activated command system, the method comprising: generating, and presenting to the user, a first command prompt phrase, the first command prompt phrase being a voice prompt phrase that includes a first item on the list and an index for a second item on the list, the first command prompt phrase not including an index for the first item on the list, wherein the index for the first item on the list is instead included in a different command prompt phrase for a different item that immediately precedes the first item on the list, and wherein the second item on the list immediately follows the first item on the list; selecting the different item from the list if a user selection barge-in is received during a presentation, to the user, of the index for the first item on the list as part of a presentation, to the user, of the different command prompt phrase; receiving a verbal navigation command from the user; utilizing a computer processor that is a component of the computer to adjust the first command prompt phrase, in response to the verbal navigation command received from the user, such that the adjusted first command prompt phrase does not include the different item or the second item on the list but does include the index for the first item on the list, the first item on the list, and the index for the second item on the list; generating, and presenting to the user, as a further response to the verbal navigation command received from the user, the adjusted first command prompt phrase, the adjusted first command prompt phrase being a voice prompt phrase that includes the index for the first item on the list, the first item on the list, and the index for the second item on the list; and selecting the first item on the list if the user selection barge-in is received during a presentation, to the user, of the index for the first item on the list as part of said presentation, to the user, of the adjusted first command prompt phase.