Patent ID: 7630900

Claim:
A method of a directory assistance application using voice recognition to provide information of a requested directory listing, the method, comprising: identifying caller geographic information associated with a call using telephone network data provided with the call; wherein, the caller geographic information is associated with a caller geographic locale; selecting, from a plurality of grammars, a particular grammar that is customized for the caller geographic locale; wherein the particular grammar comprises a plurality of entries, each of which represents a geographical location; determining a speech recognition result by matching a voice signal of the call to an entry of the plurality of entries in the particular grammar; wherein, in the particular grammar customized for the caller geographic locale, a local city entry in the plurality of entries includes the name of the local city without a state name within which the local city resides, the local city being local to the caller geographic locale; wherein, in the particular grammar, a non-local city entry in the plurality of entries includes the name of the non-local city and another state name within which the non-local city resides, the non-local city being non-local to the caller geographic locale.