Patent Document ID: 8949122
Application ID: 12036886

Base Claim:
1. A method of evaluating a plurality of stored audio phrases and at least one finite state grammar, wherein the at least one finite state grammar defines at least a first plurality of text phrases and wherein the plurality of stored audio phrases correspond to a second plurality of text phrases, the method comprising: determining, for each one text phrase of the first plurality of text phrases and based at least in part on phrase characteristics associated with the plurality of stored audio phrases, whether there is an audio phrase of the plurality of stored audio phrases that corresponds to the one text phrase, wherein the determining is performed using at least one programmed processor; and identifying a phrase coverage for the at least one finite state grammar based at least in part on the determining, the phrase coverage indicating whether there are one or more text phrases of the first plurality of text phrases defined by the at least one finite state grammar to which none of the plurality of stored audio phrases corresponds.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: performing the determining and identifying in response to detecting a programmatically triggered event, wherein the programmatically triggered event results from a detection of a change in the at least one finite state grammar or a change in the plurality of stored audio phrases.