Automatic dialogue system for speech interrogation of databank entries uses speech recognition system assisted by speech model obtained before beginning of dialogue

摘要

The invention relates to an automatic dialog system for spoken inquiries into a database entry which contains several components available for inquiry, wherein the speech recognition (3) of a spoken uttrance for inquiring into the database entry is supported by a language model (6) which was prepared before the start of the dialog to which the spoken utterance belongs and which models the correlated occurrence of the components of the database entry provided for the inquiry in the spoken utterance of the dialog.