8. An apparatus for intention-based communications in a mobile communication device, the apparatus comprising: an automatic speech recognizer that receives an input from a user of the mobile communication device and converts speech portions in the user's input into linguistic representations; a phoneme lattice generator that generates a phoneme lattice based on the linguistic representations; and an intention determination unit that scores stored intention n-grams against the generated phoneme lattice, scores intentions from the intention n-grams, determines the highest scoring intention, and determines whether the highest scoring intention is above a predetermined threshold, wherein if the highest scoring intention is above the predetermined threshold, then the intention determination unit executes the determined intention.
8. An apparatus for intention-based communications in a mobile communication device, the apparatus comprising: an automatic speech recognizer that receives an input from a user of the mobile communication device and converts speech portions in the user's input into linguistic representations; a phoneme lattice generator that generates a phoneme lattice based on the linguistic representations; and an intention determination unit that scores stored intention n-grams against the generated phoneme lattice, scores intentions from the intention n-grams, determines the highest scoring intention, and determines whether the highest scoring intention is above a predetermined threshold, wherein if the highest scoring intention is above the predetermined threshold, then the intention determination unit executes the determined intention. 13. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the linguistic representations are at least one of: words, morphemes, syllables, phones, phonemes, articulatory distinctive features, and acoustic distinctive features of at least one language.