Patent Document ID: 20100305947
Application ID: 12792384
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented speech recognition method for selecting a combination of list elements via a speech input, wherein a first list element of the combination is part of a first set of list elements and a second list element of the combination is part of a second set of list elements, the method comprising: receiving at a processor the speech input; comparing within the processor each list element of the first set of list elements with the speech input to obtain a first candidate list of best matching list elements; processing the second set of list elements using the first candidate list to obtain a subset of the second set of list elements; comparing each list element of the subset of the second set of list elements with the speech input to obtain a second candidate list of best matching list elements; and selecting a combination of list elements using the first and the second candidate lists wherein selecting a combination of list elements comprises: determining combinations of a list element of the first candidate list with a related list element of the second candidate list; scoring each determined combination by combining the score of the list element of the first candidate list and the score of the related list element of the second candidate list; and determining a result list wherein the result list comprises best matching combinations of a list element of the first set of list elements and a list element of the second set of list elements.