5. The speech recognition system according to claim 3 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to convert the phoneme graph to a word-phoneme graph, the word-phoneme graph assigning a word and associated phonetic transcription to each edge.
8. The speech recognition system according to claim 5 , wherein a time-synchronous word-phoneme graph is provided, and wherein words having no connection either forward or backward in time are removed from the word-phoneme graph.