Abstract: A processing unit for an audio system of a vehicle comprises a first processing node, a second processing node and a program memory. The program memory may be overwritten by the first processing node and by the second processing node. After the processing unit has started up the first processing node may compute and write to the program memory an audio output. The processing unit may also perform a handover of the computing of the audio output from the first processing node to the second processing node when the first processing node has overwritten the program memory up to a predefined point and when the second processing node is operational. The second processing node is designed to compute the audio output after the handover, and to write this audio output to the program memory.

Abstract: A setting aid for a rear-view mirror in a motor vehicle has one or more illumination means in spatial proximity to one or more edges of a rear window or at the rear of the motor vehicle. The one or more illumination means are arranged such that if the motor vehicle is in dark surroundings and the one or more illumination means are switched on, the edge of the rear window or a lateral contour of the motor vehicle stands out, when looking in the rear-view mirror, at least in certain regions from the surroundings behind the motor vehicle. A first means is provided which automatically switches on the one or more illumination means during the setting of the rear-view mirror if a setting of the rear-view mirror is required, which is assumed to be required if a change in the setting of the driver's seat has been noticed.

Abstract: A setting aid for a rear-view mirror in a motor vehicle has one or more illumination means in spatial proximity to one or more edges of a rear window or at the rear of the motor vehicle. The one or more illumination means are arranged such that if the motor vehicle is in dark surroundings and the one or more illumination means are switched on, the edge of the rear window or a lateral contour of the motor vehicle stands out, when looking in the rear-view mirror, at least in certain regions from the surroundings behind the motor vehicle. A first means is provided which automatically switches on the one or more illumination means during the setting of the rear-view mirror if a setting of the rear-view mirror is required, which is assumed to be required if a change in the setting of the driver's seat has been noticed.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for speech recognition based on a hidden Markov model are disclosed. A disclosed method of speech recognition is based on a hidden Markov model in which words to be recognized are modeled as chains of states and trained using predefined speech data material. Known vocabulary is divided into first and second partial vocabularies where the first partial vocabulary is trained and transcribed using a whole word model and the second partial vocabulary is trained and transcribed using a phoneme-based model in order to obtain a mixed hidden Markov model. The transcriptions from the two models are stored in a single pronunciation lexicon and the mixed hidden Markov model stored in a singe search space. Apparatus are disclosed that also employ a hidden Markov model.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for configuring a user interface for an electronic device for connecting it at least temporarily to a telecommunication or data network, comprising a voice-oriented user interface and/or a voice data entry device. The user interface or voice data entry device is configured via the telecommunication or data network by transferring at least parts of a vocabulary from a main unit in the telecommunication or data network to a terminal component of the user interface, which receives said parts of the vocabulary and saves them in an internal vocabulary memory.

Abstract: The invention relates to a speech recognition method for a small device (MS, T) that is connected to a telecommunications network or to a data network (GSM, TN), whereby the method involves a recognition of letter strings or character strings, which are composed of spoken individual letters or characters, as words that are output as written words and/or are used for controlling purposes. The recognition of the letter strings or character strings is performed, at least in part, in a central server (PRO) that is connected to the small device via the telecommunications network or data network.

Abstract: The present invention provides for a method and system of voice recognition, in particular for navigation in a hypertext navigation system. For each new word, a language identification stage, in particular embodied as a neural network, is used to determine the inclusion of the word in a language or a dialect with a given probability factor and the grapheme/phoneme relationship corresponding to the word with the greatest probability coefficient in the phonetic lexicon, or in at least one of the several phonetic lexica, is updated.

Abstract: The invention relates to a voice-controlled arrangement (1) comprising a plurality of devices to be controlled (3 to 9) and a mobile voice data entry unit (11) which is connected to said devices by a wireless communication link. At least some of the devices each have a device vocabulary memory (3a to 9a) and a vocabulary transmission unit (3b to 9b), and the voice data entry unit has selection means for selecting the vocabularies to he loaded according to the route destination.

Abstract: A speech-controlled access control arrangement (1) comprising at least one access control device (3′, 5′, 7′, 9′) to release or block access, in particular to a delimited room (7, 9), technical device (3, 5) or data or telecommunications network, and a mobile speech input unit (11) connected to the access control device via a telecommunications connection, in particular a wire-free telecommunications connection.