Patent ID: 7392189

Claim:
A method for speech recognition to select a list element from a list of list elements, comprising: storing a voice input, where the voice input comprises a whole word of a desired list element; separating the voice input into multiple speech subunits; forming at least one sequence of speech subunits in accordance with the separated voice input; configuring a speech recognition unit in response to the at least one sequence of speech subunits; generating with a first recognition procedure a sub-list of list elements from the list of list elements in response to the at least one sequence of speech subunits wherein upon determination that the representation of the list of list element is different from the representation of the speech subunits, the first recognition procedures comprises mapping the representation of the list of list element to that of the speech subunits, or mapping the representation of the speech subunits to that of the list of list elements; comparing with a second recognition procedure the list elements in the sub-list with the stored whole word voice input; and selecting at least one list element of the sub-list as a recognition result.