16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer program having instructions for generating a lexicon for use with speech recognition, the instructions comprising: receiving symbolic input as labeled speech data; overgenerating potential pronunciations based on the symbolic input, wherein the overgenerating comprises: establishing a set of conversion rules; and converting portions of the symbolic input into a number of possible lexical pronunciation variants based on the set of conversion rules; identifying potential pronunciations in a speech recognition context to yield identified potential pronunciations; and storing the identified potential pronunciations in a lexicon.
16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer program having instructions for generating a lexicon for use with speech recognition, the instructions comprising: receiving symbolic input as labeled speech data; overgenerating potential pronunciations based on the symbolic input, wherein the overgenerating comprises: establishing a set of conversion rules; and converting portions of the symbolic input into a number of possible lexical pronunciation variants based on the set of conversion rules; identifying potential pronunciations in a speech recognition context to yield identified potential pronunciations; and storing the identified potential pronunciations in a lexicon. 17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein symbolic input includes multiple examples of a same spoken word.