7. The method of claim 2 : at least one input component of the device comprising an audio input component; the query comprising an audio query received through an audio input component; at least one search engine comprising a textual search engine configured to handle textual queries; and the instructions configured to, after receiving the query through the audio input component and before executing the query on the textual search engine, transitioning the audio query to a textual query.
7. The method of claim 2 : at least one input component of the device comprising an audio input component; the query comprising an audio query received through an audio input component; at least one search engine comprising a textual search engine configured to handle textual queries; and the instructions configured to, after receiving the query through the audio input component and before executing the query on the textual search engine, transitioning the audio query to a textual query. 8. The method of claim 7 , transitioning the query comprising: identifying at least one phoneme in the query according to an acoustic model; identifying at least one query term corresponding to the at least one phoneme according to a pronunciation model; and generating a recognition result from the at least one query term according to a vocabulary of an n-gram language model.