Patent Document ID: 8731927
Application ID: 13846103

Base Claim:
1. A speech recognition method in which an entry corresponding to a speech input is selected from a list of entries, the method comprising: detecting the speech input; recognizing a phoneme sequence of the speech input; providing a list of fragments of entries in the list of entries, the fragments being based on a subword or phoneme level, each entry in the list of entries being formable by concatenating one or more fragments in the list of fragments; for each given fragment in the list of fragments, comparing one or more phonemes of the recognized phoneme sequence to the given fragment to generate a fragment score that represents how well the one or more phonemes of the recognized phoneme sequence fits to the given fragment on the subword or phoneme level; for each given entry in the list of entries, calculating an entry score based on the fragment scores of the one or more fragments in the list of fragments that form the given entry; and generating a candidate list of best matching entries based on the calculated entry scores.

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Claim 14:
14. The method of claim 1 further comprising comparing the recognized speech input to at least some of the complete entries in order to generate the candidate list.