78. The method of claim 76 wherein the step of generating the second word score includes the steps of: forming a first table in which each label in the alphabet provides a vote for each word in the vocabulary, each label vote for a subject word indicating the likelihood of the subject word producing the label providing the vote; forming a second table in which each label is assigned a penalty for each word in the vocabulary, the penalty assigned to a given label for a given word being indicative of the likelihood of the given label not being produced according to the model for the given word; for a given string of generated labels, determining a polled word score for a subject word which includes the step of combining the respective votes and penalties of all labels in the string for the subject word, the polled word score corresponding to the second word score.
78. The method of claim 76 wherein the step of generating the second word score includes the steps of: forming a first table in which each label in the alphabet provides a vote for each word in the vocabulary, each label vote for a subject word indicating the likelihood of the subject word producing the label providing the vote; forming a second table in which each label is assigned a penalty for each word in the vocabulary, the penalty assigned to a given label for a given word being indicative of the likelihood of the given label not being produced according to the model for the given word; for a given string of generated labels, determining a polled word score for a subject word which includes the step of combining the respective votes and penalties of all labels in the string for the subject word, the polled word score corresponding to the second word score. 83. The method of claim 78 comprising the further step of: repeating the steps of claim 78 for each word in the vocabulary as the subject word in order to provide a polled word score for each word; wherein the combining step includes summing the polled word score for a given subject word with at least one word score resulting from performing an acoustic match for the given subject word.