Patent ID: 7162426

Claim:
A computer motherboard architecture comprising: a computer motherboard possessing typical components including a CPU, a data bus, a power interface, and an audio input data pathway, said audio input data pathway connecting the audio input of the motherboard to the CPU; a DSP chip in the audio input data path, wherein the DSP chip is co-located with the CPU on the motherboard; a bridge interfacing between said DSP chip and the bus on the computer motherboard; a memory in said DSP chip; a command and control speech engine residing in said memory of said DSP chip; wherein said DSP is enabled to operate in either command and control mode or continuous speech mode and said DSP serves as the preprocessor of all speech input prior to execution of instructions by the CPU to process the speech input and wherein said speech engine includes a vocabulary of speech terms enabled to be loaded into said memory which are associated with specific instructions or contextual environments, and further wherein said DSP is enabled to be dynamically set by a user in either a continuous speech mode or a command and control mode.