17. The tangible computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the instructions configured to cause the computing device to pre-process the set of training documents comprise instructions configured to cause the computing device to: phonetically transcribe speech documents in the set of training documents into an intermediate representative language, thereby creating phonetic transcriptions; convert the training documents from native format to UTF-8 format; and segment each document in the set of training documents.
17. The tangible computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the instructions configured to cause the computing device to pre-process the set of training documents comprise instructions configured to cause the computing device to: phonetically transcribe speech documents in the set of training documents into an intermediate representative language, thereby creating phonetic transcriptions; convert the training documents from native format to UTF-8 format; and segment each document in the set of training documents. 18. The tangible computer readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the instructions configured to cause the computing device to segment each document in the set of training documents comprise instructions configured to cause the computing device to tokenize the phonetic transcriptions and the converted documents to create counts for index terms and phonemes.