US Patent 7243070 Speech recognition system and method for operating same

A speech recognition system and method are provided for the speech-controlled inputting of short messages into a telecommunications terminal, in particular a mobile phone or cordless phone, having a speech recognizer module which operates independently of the speaker, a text/phoneme converter module and/or an auxiliary speech recognition module which operates in a speaker-dependent fashion and has the purpose of converting the text inputs or text transfers into a phonetic script which is adapted to the speech recognition module, and a vocabulary control module for supplementing the vocabulary or for replacing elements of the vocabulary by words or phrases which have been input or transferred.