46. The method of claim 41 comprising the further step of: (m) determining, for a subject word, a penalty for each label wherein the penalty for a given label represents the likelihood of the subject word not producing the given label; and (n) combining together (i) the label votes and (ii) the penalties corresponding to the subject word, wherein each combined label vote corresponds to a label generated in response to the spoken input and wherein each combined penalty corresponds to a label not generated in response to the spoken input.
46. The method of claim 41 comprising the further step of: (m) determining, for a subject word, a penalty for each label wherein the penalty for a given label represents the likelihood of the subject word not producing the given label; and (n) combining together (i) the label votes and (ii) the penalties corresponding to the subject word, wherein each combined label vote corresponds to a label generated in response to the spoken input and wherein each combined penalty corresponds to a label not generated in response to the spoken input. 47. The method of claim 46 comprising the further steps of: (o) repeating steps (a), (b), (c), (m), and (n) for each word as the subject word.