Patent ID: 7529670

Claim:
A speech recognition method, comprising: (a) receiving, by an input port, a first voice utterance from a user, the first voice utterance comprising at least a first utterance component; (b) determining, by speaker monitoring agent, a pulmonary state of the user at an approximate time when the first voice utterance was made, wherein the first and second pulmonary states indicate at least one of an amount of air in the user's lungs, a degree of expansion of the user's lungs, and a forcefulness with which air is exhaled; (c) applying, by a frame analyzer, the following rules: (C1) when the user had a first pulmonary state when the first voice utterance was made, using a first algorithm to identify a potential match for the voice utterance; and (C2) when the user had a second pulmonary state when the first voice utterance was made, using a second different algorithm to identify a potential match for the first voice utterance.