Patent Document ID: 8106285
Application ID: 12907449

Base Claim:
1. A method of speech-driven selection of an audio file from a plurality of audio files in an audio player, each of the audio files having at least vocal components, the method comprising: detecting a refrain in each of the audio files of the plurality of audio files; determining either or both phonetic or acoustic representations of at least part of a refrain of each of the audio files; supplying each of the phonetic or acoustic representations to a speech recognition unit; comparing the phonetic or acoustic representations to a voice command uttered by the user of the audio player; and selecting an audio file based on the best matching result of the comparison.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 , where detecting a refrain in each of the audio files includes generating a phonetic transcription of a majority of the audio file; and identifying a vocal segment in the generated phonetic transcription, that is repeated at least once.