24. In a speech recognition system, wherein speech is represented by data in frames of equal time intervals, an arrangement for generating a final word template from a plurality of tokens, including: (a) means for forming an interim template representative of at least one token; (b) means for generating a time alignment path between said interim template and an additional token; (c) means for weighting the data representing said interim template proportional to the number of tokens said interim template represents; and (d) means for combining frames from said interim template with frames from said additional token, dependent upon the number of tokens which the interim template represents, to produce output frames representative of the final word template.
24. In a speech recognition system, wherein speech is represented by data in frames of equal time intervals, an arrangement for generating a final word template from a plurality of tokens, including: (a) means for forming an interim template representative of at least one token; (b) means for generating a time alignment path between said interim template and an additional token; (c) means for weighting the data representing said interim template proportional to the number of tokens said interim template represents; and (d) means for combining frames from said interim template with frames from said additional token, dependent upon the number of tokens which the interim template represents, to produce output frames representative of the final word template. 28. An arrangement, according to claim 24, including means for mapping frames from said interim template and said additional token along said time alignment path onto an averaged time axis.