Patent Document ID: 8781826
Application ID: 10532919

Base Claim:
1. A method for operating a speech recognition system comprising acts of: detecting a speech signal of a user; analyzing the speech signal to recognize speech information contained in the speech signal; determining a reception quality value or a noise value which represents a current reception quality; and switching the speech recognition system over to a mode of operation which is less sensitive to noise in response to determining that the noise value has exceeded a noise threshold or that the reception quality value has dropped below a reception quality threshold, or both; and automatically resetting the speech recognition system to a previous mode of operation in response to determining that the reception quality value has exceeded the reception quality threshold or that the noise value has dropped below the noise threshold.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising acts of: analyzing an incoming signal for a type of disturbance causing the reception quality value to be below the reception quality threshold or the noise value to be above the noise threshold, and in response to identifying the type of disturbance in the incoming signal, outputting a prompt to the user.