10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the matching further comprises: identifying a subset of the paths having the highest aggregate path likelihoods; and using the identified subset of the paths to determine which of a subset of the positively identified occurrences of the at least one spoken word sound to match against time segments that have not yet been matched.
10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the matching further comprises: identifying a subset of the paths having the highest aggregate path likelihoods; and using the identified subset of the paths to determine which of a subset of the positively identified occurrences of the at least one spoken word sound to match against time segments that have not yet been matched. 11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the number of the subset of the paths exceeds 500,000.