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. 14. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the mobile communication device is one of: a wireless telephone, a mobile telephone, a cellular telephone, a wireless radio, a portable computer, a laptop, an MP3 player, a satellite radio, and a satellite television.