Methodology for the use of verbal proxies for dynamic vocabulary additions in speech interfaces

A computer program recorded in machine readable memory for performing dynamic vocabulary addition to a speech recognition interface of an application using verbal proxies, said program comprising:

• instructions for adding one or more proxies that have been defined to a vocabulary of the speech recognition interface;
• instructions of the speech recognition interface for receiving and processing an input speech signal representative of a command and a proxy to generate a text version of a recognized speech;
• instructions of the application for receiving and processing the text version of the recognized speech to generate an update instruction;
• instructions of the speech recognition interface for controlling the speech recognition interface in accordance with the update instruction to update a vocabulary of the speech recognition interface to include a target of the proxy;
• and
• wherein the input speech signal representative of the command and the proxy is generated by a user speaking the command and the proxy of the application.

A method for dynamic vocabulary addition to a speech recognition interface of an application using verbal proxies, comprising:

• defining one or more proxies;
• adding the one or more proxies to a vocabulary of the speech recognition interface;
• receiving an input speech signal representative of a command and a proxy;
• providing the input speech signal to the speech recognition interface of the application;
• the speech recognition interface processing the input speech signal to generate a text version of a recognized speech that contains the command and the proxy;
• a parsing function of the application receiving the text version of the recognized speech and identifying a software routine of the application to receive the command and the proxy;
• a proxy function of the identified software routine receiving the command and the proxy, wherein target information is received by the proxy function from a source external to the application and the target information includes a text-based target of the proxy;
• the proxy function linking the text-based target contained within the target information to the proxy;
• the proxy function generating an update instruction;
• the speech recognition interface receiving the update instruction and the text-based target from the proxy function of the application;
• and
• the speech recognition interface updating the vocabulary in accordance with the update instruction to include the text-based target.

A computer program recorded in machine readable memory for performing dynamic vocabulary addition to a speech recognition interface of an application using verbal proxies, said program comprising:

• instructions for adding one or more proxies that have been defined to a vocabulary of the speech recognition interface;
• instructions of the speech recognition interface for receiving and processing an input speech signal representative of a command and a proxy to generate a text version of a recognized speech;
• instructions of the application for receiving the text version of the recognized speech and identifying a software routine of the application to receive the text version of the recognized speech;
• instructions of a proxy function of the identified software routine for receiving the text version of the recognized speech and a target information, wherein the target information is received by the proxy function from a source external to the application and includes a text-based target of the proxy to be added to a vocabulary of the speech recognition interface;
• instructions of the proxy function for linking the text-based target contained within the target information to the proxy;
• instructions of the proxy function for generating an update instruction;
• and
• instructions of the speech recognition interface for receiving the update instruction and the text-based target from the proxy function and for updating the vocabulary in accordance with the update instruction to include the text-based target.

An application system having speech recognition capabilities that is capable of dynamic vocabulary addition using verbal proxies, comprising:

• a speech recognition interface of an application having a vocabulary that contains one or more defined proxies and capable of processing an input speech signal to generate a text version of a recognized speech representative of words of the input speech signal that are contained within the vocabulary;
• a parsing function of the application that receives the text version of the recognized speech from the speech recognition interface;
• a proxy function of the application that is controlled by the parsing function and that receives a target information from a source external to the application, wherein the target information contains a text-based target of a proxy to be added to the vocabulary of the speech recognition interface;
• a vocabulary update function of the speech recognition interface that is controlled by the proxy function;
• and
• wherein in response to receiving the input speech signal representative of a command and a proxy contained within the vocabulary, the text version of the recognized speech generated by the speech recognition interface causes the parsing function to provide the text version of the recognized speech to the proxy function, the proxy function links the text-based target of the target information to the proxy, and an update instruction generated by the proxy function controls the speech recognition interface to update the vocabulary to include the text-based target.