15. A computer-readable storage device having instructions stored which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising: performing automatic speech recognition using a bootstrap model on utterance data not having a corresponding manual transcription, to produce automatically transcribed utterances, wherein the bootstrap model is based on text data mined from a website relevant to a specific domain; selecting a predetermined number of utterances not having a corresponding manual transcription based on a geometrically computed n-tuple confidence score; receiving transcriptions of the predetermined number of utterances, wherein the transcriptions are made by a human being; and generating a language model based on the automatically transcribed utterances, the predetermined number of utterances, and the transcriptions.
15. A computer-readable storage device having instructions stored which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising: performing automatic speech recognition using a bootstrap model on utterance data not having a corresponding manual transcription, to produce automatically transcribed utterances, wherein the bootstrap model is based on text data mined from a website relevant to a specific domain; selecting a predetermined number of utterances not having a corresponding manual transcription based on a geometrically computed n-tuple confidence score; receiving transcriptions of the predetermined number of utterances, wherein the transcriptions are made by a human being; and generating a language model based on the automatically transcribed utterances, the predetermined number of utterances, and the transcriptions. 20. The computer-readable storage device of claim 15 , wherein the predetermined number of utterances are randomly selected.