3. The automated speech recognition system of claim 2, wherein the multi-layer neural network is a multi-layer perceptron.
3. The automated speech recognition system of claim 2, wherein the multi-layer neural network is a multi-layer perceptron. 6. The automated speech recognition system of claim 3, wherein the multi-layer perceptron comprises: a first layer having a number n of nodes equal to a number n of the plurality of normalized confidence measurements, each first layer node inputting the n normalized confidence measurements; a second layer having a number m of nodes, each second layer node connected to the n first layer nodes; and a third layer having a single node connected to each of the m second layer nodes.