Patent Document ID: 6088671
Application ID: 09098502

Base Claim:
1. A method for use in recognizing continuous speech comprising: accepting signals corresponding to interspersed speech elements including text elements corresponding to text to be recognized and command elements corresponding to commands to be executed, wherein a particular one of the speech elements may correspond to a text element in one context and to a command element in another context, recognizing the speech elements as if they were text, after recognizing the speech elements as if they were text, recognizing the speech elements as if they were commands, and when a recognized one of the speech elements may be either a command element or a text element, designating the recognized speech element as corresponding to a text element or to a command element based on a context in which the recognized speech element appears.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 in which a text element is acted on by providing the text element to a text processing application.