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.

---

Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: generating a plurality of candidate interpretations of the utterance, wherein each candidate interpretation includes a series of words or phrases corresponding to the series of syllables mapped to the recognized stream of phonemes; assigning a score to each of the plurality of candidate interpretations; and selecting a candidate interpretation having a highest assigned score as being a probable interpretation of the utterance.