Patent Document ID: 8725505
Application ID: 10971817

Base Claim:
1. A computer implemented method of recognizing speech, the method comprising: identifying a valid speech recognition command that includes a pairing of a valid verb with one of a plurality of different valid objects pre-specified for the valid verb, wherein each one of the valid objects, in combination with the valid verb, defines a different action to be performed by a computing system; receiving an utterance from a user; determining that the utterance includes the valid verb in combination with an invalid object, the invalid object being determined to be invalid based at least in part upon a comparison of the invalid object to said plurality of different valid objects pre-specified for the valid verb; responding to the determination that the utterance includes the valid verb in combination with an invalid object by informing the user that the invalid object does not correspond to the valid verb and providing, in response to the determination, inductive feedback that induces the user to select one of two options for proceeding, comprising: prompting the user to submit an additional utterance that again includes the valid verb in combination with the invalid object but is preceded by a valid command word other than the valid verb, to convert the valid verb and the invalid object into a textual representation to be inserted as dictation; and prompting the user to select one of the different valid objects, that are prespecified for the valid verb, to use with the valid verb, by rendering a list of at least some of the different valid objects to the user; if the user submits the additional utterance, proceeding with the first one of the options by inserting the textual representation of the valid verb and the invalid object into a displayed collection of text generated based on other utterances received from the user; and if the user selects one of the different valid objects from the list, proceeding with the second one of the options by executing, using a processor of the computing system, the action defined by the valid verb and selected valid object.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein providing inductive feedback further comprises automatically providing the inductive feedback in response to the determination that the utterance includes the valid verb in combination with the invalid object.