6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the phonemic-linguistic analysis module includes a table of phonemic features and associated weighting factors.
1. A system of statistically analyzing search terms for detection by a speech recognition engine, comprising an interface adapted to receive a text-based search term; a textual-linguistic analysis module adapted to detect one or more textual features within the search term and generate a first numeric score associated with the search term, the first numeric score comprising an unbounded score representing the sum of all textual features contained within the search term; a phonetic conversion module adapted to convert the text-based search term into a phoneme string; a phonemic-linguistic analysis module adapted to detect one or more phonemic features within the phoneme string and generate a second numeric score associated with the search term, the second numeric score comprising an unbounded score representing the sum of all phonemic features contained within the phoneme string; a score normalization module adapted to normalize the first and second numeric scores and output a numeric search term score to a user or process, wherein the numeric search term score correlates with a probability that the search term will be accurately identified by a speech recognition engine.