Abstract: To send text messages, a text together with a transmit address is input into a transmitting device by voice input, where the voice input is processed in a speech recognition unit and compared with predefined text patterns stored in memory means. A predefined text pattern which is the closest match to the is text selected and displayed. The user must confirm that the displayed text is the intended, for the text message to be sent.

Abstract: A speech recognition method is disclosed for activating a hyperlink of an Internet page. In particular the method comprises determining hypertexts of the hyperlinks in text information, determining corresponding first phoneme sequences of hypertexts, receiving a spoken command from a user, determining a second phoneme sequence corresponding to the spoken command, determining the hyperlink selected by the user using the first and second phoneme sequences, activating the selected hyperlink, where one quality value is determined for each hypertext when first phoneme sequences are determined and where an extra hypertext is determined when the quality value of a hypertext is below a threshold and is assigned to the hypertext of the Internet page or in lieu of the hypertext, and where a first phoneme sequence determined for the extra hypertext has a quality value that exceeds the threshold.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of supporting the dialog between a user and a target device and a computer for editing the information for a target device to support the communication between a user and the target device and also to a computer program product with which the steps in accordance with the method can be executed. In order to provide such a method and such a computer, by which a simple dialog between the user and a target device and a wide application, that is not just restricted to computers on the Internet, can be achieved, it is envisaged that the user is identified and user-specific data, which are used when editing the information for the target device are stored in a database.

Abstract: To send text messages, a text together with a transmit address being input into a transmitting device (1; 31; 41) and the text message being sent to the stated transmit address by means of the transmitting device, it is proposed, to simplify the inputting and transmission process, that the text be input by voice input, processed in a speech recognition unit (5; 35; 45) and compared with predefined text patterns stored in memory means (8; 38; 48), a predefined text pattern which is the closest match to the text being selected and displayed, whereupon, once it has been confirmed, it is used as the text for the text message to be sent.