15. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the phonemic language model is an m-gram language model or a compact variagram.
9. A method of identifying words from a sound block, the method comprising: deriving, with at least one processor, a best path through a word graph where each word in the word graph has assigned a word score and a phonetic transcription, and wherein words are assigned to the sound block based on the best path, wherein the word score of each word in the word graph includes the word score as obtained from applying a phonemic language model to each word of the word graph; extracting from the sound block a phoneme graph, the phoneme graph assigning a phoneme to each edge, and wherein the phonetic transcriptions of the words in the word graph are based on the phoneme graph; and converting the phoneme graph to a word-phoneme graph, the word-phoneme graph assigning a word and associated phonetic transcription to each edge.