36. The system of claim 35 further operable for generating the hypothesis in a word-by-word fashion, and the subsequent analysis for a word being performed after the speech recognizer generates the next word in the hypothesis.
35. A system for recognizing speech, comprising: a speech recognizer configured to analyze speech input and generate a hypothesis of words and respective confidence factors for the words; an acceptance algorithm operable for comparing the confidence factor of a word to an acceptance threshold for accepting or rejecting the word; an adjustment component operable for comparing at least a portion of the hypothesis containing a word that is not accepted to at least a portion of an expected response, and if the comparison is favorable, storing the word for subsequent analysis; the adjustment component further operable to adjust the acceptance threshold and compare the confidence factor for at least one stored word to the adjusted acceptance threshold.