13. A computer-implemented method of creating an entry in a lexicon of alternatives used to correct recognized text transcribed from a spoken text by a speech recognition device, the method comprising: examining, by at least one processor, at least one source of knowledge that is independent of an acoustic model and a language model used by the speech recognition device, wherein the at least one source of knowledge includes confusion information compiled from corrected texts and associated recognized texts, wherein the at least source of knowledge is examined with respect to text elements, including word parts, words and/or word sequences associated with the confusion information contained therein to identify text elements that can be confused with one another; and including the text elements that can be confused with one another as a list of alternatives in the entry of the lexicon of alternatives.
24. A computer-implemented method as claimed in claim 13 , further comprising: updating the list of alternatives in the entry based, at least in part, on whether a frequency of previous corrections of the recognized text with text element replacements selected by a user is within predetermined bounds.