SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING SPEECH RECOGNITION TO EFFICIENTLY PERFORM DATA INDEXING PROCEDURES

摘要

A system and method for utilizing speech recognition to efficiently perform data indexing procedures includes an authoring module that coordinates an authoring procedure for creating an index file that has pattern word sets corresponding to data objects stored in a memory of a host electronic device (210). The pattern word sets are generated with a speech recognition engine that transforms spoken data descriptions into text data descriptions for creating the pattern word sets (214). The pattern word sets are associated in the index file with data object identifiers that uniquely identify the corresponding data objects (218). A retrieval module manages a retrieval procedure in which the speech recognition engine converts a spoken data request into a text data request (222). The retrieval module compares the text data request and the pattern word sets to identify a requested object identifier for locating a requested data object from among the data objects stored in the memory of the host electronic device (226).