15. The system of claim 14 wherein the steps further comprise excluding words not reliably recognized in generating the word hypotheses from contributing to the assessment score.
15. The system of claim 14 wherein the steps further comprise excluding words not reliably recognized in generating the word hypotheses from contributing to the assessment score. 16. The system of claim 15 , wherein a confidence level is associated with each word in the word hypotheses identifying a likelihood that a word in a word hypothesis was correctly recognized in generating the word hypotheses.