5. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the user utterance at the telematics unit from the user comprises: receiving the user utterance at a speech recognition engine operating in continuous recognition mode in the telematics unit.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the user utterance at the telematics unit from the user comprises: receiving the user utterance at a speech recognition engine operating in continuous recognition mode in the telematics unit. 6. The method of claim 5 , wherein parsing the user utterance into the plurality of phonemes comprises: recognizing phonemes for the plurality of words corresponding to the user utterance at the speech recognition engine.