Assigning meanings to spoken utterances in a speech recognition system. A
plurality of speech rules is generated, each of the of speech rules
comprising a language model and an expression associated with the language
model. At one interval (e.g. upon the detection of speech in the system),
a current language model is generated from each language model in the
speech rules for use by a recognizer. When a sequence of words is received
from the recognizer, a set of speech rules which match the sequence of
words received from the recognizer is determined. Each expression
associated with the language model in each of the set of speech rules is
evaluated, and actions are performed in the system according to the
expressions associated with each language model in the set of speech
rules.
