Patent ID: 8700518

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of trading at least one financial instrument, comprising: receiving via a microphone at a computer system coupled to the microphone at least one spoken identifier of a user; establishing an identity of the user responsive to at least one of the at least one spoken identifier; receiving at least one spoken command to trade at least one financial instrument, between the user whose identity was established and at least one other party capable of trading that at least one financial instrument; identifying a type of trade and at least one financial instrument the user wishes to trade responsive to the at least one spoken command and a set of spokenopita, comprising: speech recognition elements useful for recognizing terms a speaker is most likely to speak at such time as the speaker wishes to trade at least one financial instrument, comprising at least one term indicating the speaker wishes to buy a financial instrument and at least one term indicating the speaker wishes to sell a financial instrument; and speech recognition elements useful for recognizing a plurality of identifiers for each of a plurality of financial instruments capable of being traded; establishing a validity of at least one of the type of trade and the at least one financial instrument the user wishes to trade; and responsive to the establishing the validity step and the establishing the identity step, performing the type of trade for the at least one financial instrument.