Patent Document ID: 20010016816
Application ID: 09734228
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. Method for recognizing speech, comprising the steps of receiving a speech phrase; generating a signal being representative to said speech phrase; pre-processing and storing said signal with respect to a determined set of rules; generating from said pre-processed signal at least one series of hypothesis speech elements; determining at least one series of words being most probable to correspond to said speech phrase by applying a predefined language model to at least said series of hypothesis speech elements, wherein the step of determining said series of words further comprises the steps of: at first determining at least one sub-word, word or a combination of words most probably being contained as a seed sub-phrase in said received speech phrase; then continuing determining words or combinations of words and which are consistent with said seed sub-phrase as at least a first successive sub-phrase which is contained in said received speech phrase by using and evaluating additional and paired and/or higher order information between the sub-phrases, thereby decreasing the burden of searching.