Patent ID: 8015013

Claim:
A method for accessing with an electronic device at least one digital file from a collection comprising more than one digital file in the electronic device, including: generating one index comprising of information entries obtained from each of the more than one digital file in the collection, the information entries including transliterations of non-English information entries, with each digital file in the collection information being linked to at least one information entry; receiving a speaker independent speech input in more than one language during a speech reception mode; setting the speech reception mode to the more than one language of the speech input, the speech input being filtered to extract meaningful media information; determining the more than one language of the speech input in a manner such that appropriate speech reception mode correlating to the language of the speech is capable of being automatically set; and comparing the speech input received during the speech reception mode with the entries in the index, wherein the file is accessed when the speech input coincides with at least one of the information entries in the index.