Patent ID: 7873517

Claim:
A motor vehicle comprising: a speech interface configured to receive an acoustic input of commands for operating one of a motor vehicle and a module of the motor vehicle; said speech interface including a speech recognition database and a speech recognition engine; said speech recognition database storing a substantial portion of at least one of commands and command components which can be input, in a version according to a pronunciation in a first language and in a version according to a pronunciation in at least a second language, such that each given one of the substantial portion of the at least one of commands and command components is stored in a version according to a pronunciation in the first language and in a version according to a pronunciation in at least the second language; said speech recognition engine being configured to automatically compare an acoustic command to at least one of commands and command components, which are stored in said speech recognition database, in a version according to the pronunciation in the first language and to at least one of commands and command components, which are stored in said speech recognition database, in a version according to the pronunciation in the second language; said speech interface including a speech recognition acoustic model trained in the first language and in the second language; and said speech interface including a multilingual grammar module, said multilingual grammar module including grammar and phrases in the first language and in the second language.