Improving speech recognition of mobile devices

Portable processor-based speech recognition in the device 14 can be improved by using the position information. It can be obtained from the board (on-board) or the information provided remotely from the hardware 26-position information on. The location information may be helpful in a number of ways in improving speech recognition. For example, the ability to adapt to the local ambient conditions including the reverberation and noise characteristic, can be enhanced by the location information. [0079] In some embodiments, a pre-developed model or context information may be provided from a remote server (12) for a given location. Portable processor-based devices, speech recognition, reverb, contextual information, location information