Patent ID: 8886542

Claim:
A voice interactive service system providing different speech-based services to a plurality of users accessing the system in each case with a communication terminal via a telecommunication network through one of a plurality of connectivity ports, the system comprising a plurality of processing cores, wherein the connectivity ports are service-specific connectivity ports, wherein: each of the connectivity ports is associated with at least one of the different speech-based services, and associating of the connectivity ports with the speech-based services is performed before the service-specific connectivity ports receive user service requests from the plurality of users via the telecommunication network; the processing cores are hardware based processing units having different configurations of speech processing resources which are stored in memory associated with the respective processing core, the configuration of one service-specific processing core comprising the speech processing resources for performing one of the different speech-based services associated with at least one of the service-specific connectivity ports; and for performing a specific one of the different speech-based services requested by one of the users through a respective one of the service-specific connectivity ports, the system comprises means for connecting the respective one of the service-specific connectivity ports to a selected one of the service-specific processing cores having a configuration of speech processing resources for performing the specific one of the speech-based services.