Patent Document ID: 7634409
Application ID: 11513269

Base Claim:
1. A method for providing out-of-vocabulary interpretation capabilities and for tolerating noise when interpreting natural language speech utterances, the method comprising: receiving an utterance from a user; recognizing a stream of phonemes contained in the utterance on an electronic device; mapping the recognized stream of phonemes to an acoustic grammar that phonemically represents one or more syllables, the recognized stream of phonemes mapped to a series of one or more of the phonemically represented syllables; and generating at least one interpretation of the utterance, wherein the generated interpretation includes the series of syllables mapped to the recognized stream of phonemes.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , the acoustic grammar phonemically representing the one or more syllables in accordance with acoustic elements of an acoustic speech model, wherein each syllable is represented by acoustic elements for an onset, a nucleus, and a coda.