1. A speech recognition and correction system comprising: at least one speech recognition device configured to transcribe a spoken text into a recognized text; and a correction device configured to: correct the recognized text, said correction device being connected to the at least one speech recognition device via a data communications medium for the transmission of the recognized text and/or of the spoken text; access a lexicon of alternatives, the lexicon of alternatives comprising a plurality of entries, wherein the plurality of entries include one or more alternatives determined from one or more sources of knowledge that are independent of an analysis by an acoustic model and a language model used by the at least one speech recognition device during transcription of the spoken text, wherein the one or more sources of knowledge include confusion information compiled from corrected texts and associated recognized texts; and display at least some of the plurality of entries as a list of alternatives to individual word parts, words and/or word sequences of the recognized text.