Speech recognition for internet video search and navigation

1. A system, comprising:

a TV communicating with the Internet;

at least one remote control device wirelessly communicating with the TV;

at least one microphone on the remote control device, the remote control device digitizing speech signals of a viewer of the TV and representing a viewer desired video site or video subject from the microphone and sending the signals to the TV;

at least one processor coupled to the TV and implementing speech recognition on received speech signals representing a desired video site or video subject to generate recognized speech; and

the processor accessing at least one database containing at least one index correlating speech with Internet addresses using the recognized speech to return at least one Internet address of an Internet site, wherein the database includes at least one index derived by the processor from closed captioned text in a televised video program received by the TV and provided to the processor.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the database includes at least one index derived from text input by a user, for at least one of: a predetermined time, or predetermined data amount.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the database contains only information received for a most recent predetermined time period.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the database contains only the most recent “X” amount of information received, wherein “X” is a predetermined data amount.

5. The system of claim 2 , wherein the database also includes information representing items that are initial, manufacturer-defined grammar.

6. A method for returning an Internet address of an Internet site storing a desired video, comprising:

accessing closed captioned text received in televised video program;

digitizing speech input to a TV remote by a viewer of the TV, the speech being related to the video;

sending the speech to a TV;

recognizing at least phonemes in the speech; and

using the phonemes as entering argument, accessing a database including an index derived from the closed captioned text received in the televised video program to retrieve the Internet address.

7. The method of claim 6 , comprising displaying the address on the TV for selection thereof by a user using the TV remote to retrieve the video from the Internet.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the database contains only information received for a most recent predetermined time period.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the database contains only the most recent “X” amount of information received, wherein “X” is a predetermined data amount.

10. A computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable medium executable by a processor to cause the processor to undertake method acts comprising:

recognizing a viewer's digitized speech representing a video and generating recognized speech in response;

accessing a data structure correlating speech representing video to Internet addresses of sites storing the video, the data structure being generated at least in part using metadata received in video presented on the TV and/or closed caption text received in video presented on the TV; and

retrieving, from the data structure, at least one Internet address correlated to a match of the recognized speech, wherein the processor and medium are wholly contained within the TV and/or the remote control without resorting to accessing a server to undertake the method acts, a limited grammar database being maintained in the TV so that memory and processing requirements to process the limited grammar database are manageable within the confines of the processor and medium, the limited grammar database including indices derived at least from the closed captioned text received by the TV for a past “X” bytes and/or a past “Y” hours, the limited grammar database not including indices derived from the closed captioned text received by the TV in excess of the past “X” bytes and/or received earlier than the past “Y” hours, such that a match to the recognized speech is returned only if the recognized speech contains content that has occurred during the broadcast in the past “Y” hours and/or if it has occurred in the past “X” bytes.

11. The computer program product of claim 10 , wherein the data structure contains only information received for a most recent predetermined time period.

12. The computer program product of claim 10 , wherein the data structure contains only the most recent “X” amount of information received, wherein “X” is a predetermined data amount.