Patent Document ID: 8106285
Application ID: 12907449

Base Claim:
1. A method of speech-driven selection of an audio file from a plurality of audio files in an audio player, each of the audio files having at least vocal components, the method comprising: detecting a refrain in each of the audio files of the plurality of audio files; determining either or both phonetic or acoustic representations of at least part of a refrain of each of the audio files; supplying each of the phonetic or acoustic representations to a speech recognition unit; comparing the phonetic or acoustic representations to a voice command uttered by the user of the audio player; and selecting an audio file based on the best matching result of the comparison.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , where selecting an audio file based on the best matching result of comparison includes selecting the audio file based additionally on either or both the phonetic or acoustic representation of the refrain.