49. An apparatus comprising: means for receiving pronunciation data for an out-of-vocabulary word, the pronunciation data comprising phoneme sub-strings selected from candidate phoneme strings having pronunciation data associated with orthographic anchors that are close to a vector representation of the out-of-vocabulary word in an orthographical vector space defined by a dictionary; and means for reproducing the pronunciation data for the out-of-vocabulary word as an audible signal.
49. An apparatus comprising: means for receiving pronunciation data for an out-of-vocabulary word, the pronunciation data comprising phoneme sub-strings selected from candidate phoneme strings having pronunciation data associated with orthographic anchors that are close to a vector representation of the out-of-vocabulary word in an orthographical vector space defined by a dictionary; and means for reproducing the pronunciation data for the out-of-vocabulary word as an audible signal. 53. The apparatus of claim 49 , wherein the dictionary comprises phoneme strings for in-vocabulary words.