19. A speech recognition method comprising: determining a location associated with a cellular telephone from roaming indications provided by said cellular telephone; selecting associated search information as a function of said location; and utilizing said selected associated search information when recognizing at least one incoming speech signal, further comprising utilizing the associated search information as a hard constraint for recognizing a telephone number defined by the incoming speech signal, the associated search information identifying hard and soft constraints and the speech recognition unit employing the identified hard constraints for recognizing spoken telephone digits in the incoming speech signal, such that the speech recognition unit: determines, based on the determined location, an expected speech pattern indicative of grouping of digits and placement of pauses in the incoming speech signal; and derives the soft constraints limiting an expected entered telephone number defined by the spoken telephone digits.
19. A speech recognition method comprising: determining a location associated with a cellular telephone from roaming indications provided by said cellular telephone; selecting associated search information as a function of said location; and utilizing said selected associated search information when recognizing at least one incoming speech signal, further comprising utilizing the associated search information as a hard constraint for recognizing a telephone number defined by the incoming speech signal, the associated search information identifying hard and soft constraints and the speech recognition unit employing the identified hard constraints for recognizing spoken telephone digits in the incoming speech signal, such that the speech recognition unit: determines, based on the determined location, an expected speech pattern indicative of grouping of digits and placement of pauses in the incoming speech signal; and derives the soft constraints limiting an expected entered telephone number defined by the spoken telephone digits. 28. The method according to claim 19 and wherein said recognizing comprises utilizing said associated search information as hard constraints.