Patent 9805722 was granted and assigned to Nuance Communications on October, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An interactive speech recognition system includes a database containing a plurality of reference terms, a list memory that receives the reference terms of category “n,” a processing circuit that populates the list memory with the reference terms corresponding to the category “n,” and a recognition circuit that processes the reference terms and terms of a spoken phrase. The recognition circuit determines if a reference term of category “n” matches a term of the spoken phrase.