1. In a speech recognition system, wherein speech is represented by data in frames of equal time intervals, a method for generating a final word template from a plurality of tokens, comprising the steps of: (a) forming an interim template representative of at least one token; (b) generating a time alignment path between said interim template and an additional token; (c) mapping frames from said interim template and said additional token along said time alignment path onto an averaged time axis; and (d) combining data associated with said mapped frames to produce composite frames representative of the final word template.
7. A method for generating a final word template, according to claim 1, including the step of accumulating values assigned to the direction taken along said time alignment path to produce said composite frames.