Patent ID: 7962344

Claim:
A method of depicting a speech user interface, comprising: receiving a request for a user interface window; determining whether the request for a user interface window includes a request for a speech user interface window; if the request for a user interface window includes a request for a speech user interface window, assembling one or more components of the speech user interface window; and instantiating a speech user interface window comprised of the one or more speech user interface components for allowing interaction with an associated software application via speech commands, the instantiation of the speech user interface window comprising parsing a user interface bitmask associated with the received request to determine a plurality of style bits contained in the bitmask, the plurality of style bits comprising information regarding at least one of a look, feel and layout of the speech user interface window, the at least one of the look, feel and layout of the speech user interface window comprising border types, coloring and shading associated with the speech user interface window.