94. Apparatus as in claim 93 wherein the calculating means includes: means for storing a plurality of votes, the value of each vote representing the likelihood of the subject word producing a respective label; and means for computing a word score based on the votes of all labels in a generated string for the subject word; the combining means combining the word score of the computing means with at least one other word score to provide the total score for the subject word.
93. Apparatus as in claim 92 wherein the calculating means includes: first means for performing an acoustic match between (a) word models comprised of Markov model phone machines selected from a first set of phone machines and (b) a string of labels generated by an acoustic processor in response to speech input and for computing a first word score; second means for performing an acoustic match between (a) word models comprised of Markov model phone machines selected from a second set of phone machines and (b) a string of labels generated by an acoustic processor in response to speech input and computing a second word score; and means for combining the first word score and the second word score to provide a total word score for the subject word.