6. The method of claim 5 , wherein a Levenshtein distance relative to words in the dictionary is used as the measure of proximity corresponding to each word in the set of the one or more words.
5. The method of claim 2 , wherein determining the word likelihood associated with each word in the set of the one or more words associated with a hypothesis comprises: associating, with each word in the set of the one or more words, a corresponding measure of proximity relative to words in a dictionary; and determining a likelihood for each word in the set of the one or more words based, in part, on the corresponding measure of proximity.