11. A method of obtaining information from speech at a vehicle, comprising: (a) receiving from an occupant of a vehicle a spoken request at a vehicle; (b) identifying navigational assistance in the spoken request based on the inclusion of numerical utterances followed by non-numerical utterances; (c) identifying telephone-related assistance in the spoken request based on only inclusion of numerical utterances; (d) identifying a vehicle function associated with the requested navigational assistance or telephone-related assistance; (e) enabling a navigation system of the vehicle when a request for navigation assistance exists; (f) wirelessly transmitting the request from the vehicle when identifying telephone-related assistance; (i) receiving a response to the request for telephone-related assistance from a directory assistance provider; (ii) performing speech recognition on the response; (iii) automatically selecting from the recognized speech at least a part of the telephone-related assistance that is usable by a vehicle device to carry out the vehicle function; (iv) putting the selected telephone--related assistance into a form usable by the vehicle device to carry out the vehicle function; and (v) carrying out the vehicle function using the vehicle device and selected telephone-related assistance.
14. The method of claim 11 , wherein step (f) further comprises converting the part of the navigational assistance into a form usable by the vehicle device.