15. The method of claim 7 , wherein the lexicon is a phonetic lexicon.
15. The method of claim 7 , wherein the lexicon is a phonetic lexicon. 16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising: using the phonetic lexicon to perform recognition on the spoken utterance to generate a recognized transcript of the spoken utterance, said recognized transcript being characterized by a corresponding pronunciation; and generating an N-best list of alternatives to the recognized transcript, each alternative of that N-best list of alternatives having a corresponding pronunciation, wherein the initial pronunciation is selected from the N-best list of alternatives.