Patent 7209884 was granted and assigned to BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT on April, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system and method are provided for the voice input of a destination using a defined input dialog into a destination guiding system in real-time operation. Devices are included by which an entered voice statement of a user is detected via a voice recognition device, compared with stored voice statements and classified according to its recognition probability, and by which the stored voice statement is recognized as the entered voice statement with the highest recognition probability. The stored voice statements assigned to a destination are composed at least of the destination name and at least a regionally limiting additional information unambiguously identifying the destination name. Each destination name is stored with a flag symbol in a first database and each additional information is stored in a second database.