1. A method for extracting meta data from a digital media storage device in a vehicle over a communication link between a control module of the vehicle and the digital media storage device, the method comprising: retrieving meta data from the digital media storage device over the communication link using the control module of the vehicle, the meta data associated with a media file from the digital media storage device, the meta data comprising text data; comparing the text data with a plurality of stored data entries using the control module; providing to a processing module, for user a interface, a phonemic representation for the text data based on a pre-stored phonemic representation associated with a stored data entry when the text data matches the stored data entry, the phonemic representation provided by a memory device of the control module; storing the meta data in the memory device of the vehicle; and creating a link between the stored meta data and the phonemic representation for the text data; and maintaining the link in the memory device across power cycles of the control module and using the link in the memory device to provide for phoneme-based speech recognition of the stored meta data.