9. The method of claim 1 , applied to matching the likely word instances to catalog entries, the method further including: accessing a catalog of phrases sets each comprising multiple phrase representations; for each phrase representation, searching the reported subset of likely word instances for likely occurrences of each phrase and scoring each likely phrase occurrence for a probability of a match between the phrase and the utterance; wherein the subset of likely word instances is searched by multiple processors operating on the multiple phrase sets; and reporting at least a subset of likely phrase occurrences and respective probability scores for further processing.
1. A method of electronically processing an utterance to locate candidate words at arbitrary positions within the utterance, including: accessing a dictionary of word sets each comprising multiple word representations; for each word representation, searching the utterance for likely instances of the word representation and scoring each likely word instance for a probability of a match to the word representation; wherein, the utterance is searched by multiple processors operating on the multiple word sets; and reporting at least a subset of likely word instances and respective probability scores for further electronic processing.