US Patent 7747442 Speech recognition application grammar modeling

The subject mater herein relates to voice applications and, more particularly, speech recognition application grammar modeling. Various embodiments provide systems, methods, and software to present one or more user interfaces through which to receive input to define and manipulate properties of a graphical listen element, wherein the properties identify one or more data sources. Some such embodiments further include building a speech recognition program grammar as a function of one or more graphical listen elements, wherein the grammar includes a representation of data retrieved from the one or more data sources.