12. Apparatus for the recognition of speech, of the type claimed in claim 11, said apparatus being further characterized in that the model storing means includes means for storing an ergodic model in which any state can occur after any other state.
12. Apparatus for the recognition of speech, of the type claimed in claim 11, said apparatus being further characterized in that the model storing means includes means for storing an ergodic model in which any state can occur after any other state. 14. Apparatus for the recognition of speech, of the type claimed in claim 12, said apparatus being further characterized in that the aligning means evaluates said multiple proposed lexical candidates to select only the best one, whereby the aligning means is capable of producing a selection signal representing the utterance as a word.