The present invention relates to a method for selecting via a speech input a list element from a list of elements, the method comprising the following steps:- recognizing a string of subword units for the speech input,- comparing the recognized string of subword units to the list of elements and generating a candidate list of best matching elements based on the comparison result, whereinfor generating the candidate list of best matching elements a confusion matrix is used which contains matrix elements comprising information about the confusion probability of subword units of different languages (comprising subword units of different natural languages).
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