Multiple Interpretations

In some applications, a single recognized utterance may have multiple interpretations. The same utterance can appear in more than one place in the grammar. For example, Austin could be interpreted as Austin, Texas or Austin, California.

The Generic Recognition set of steps uses these two recognition features (N-Best Recognition and Multiple Interpretations) together to provide better speech recognition flexibility when needed.

When these preceding two features are combined, if the user says something that sounds like either "Austin" or "Boston," the speech-recognition engine would find two possible results, "Austin" and "Boston." The first of these results would have two possible interpretations: "Austin, Texas" and "Austin, California." A sophisticated application could then prompt the user, "Did you mean Austin, Texas; Austin, California; or Boston, Massachusetts?"