5. In a voice recognition method wherein a main memory has addresses directly corresponding to digital values of spoken words, the contents at each address corresponding to the position of the word in a vocabulary, recognition including the steps: converting a spoken word to a digitized form; performing time compression of the digitized word to standardize the length of each word wherein each compressed word has a corresponding digital score; addressing the main memory at the location directly corresponding to the score; reading out, from main memory, the position of the word in the vocabulary; addressing a vocabulary memory at a memory location corresponding to the position of the word in vocabulary; and reading out a word stored at the vocabulary memory location, corresponding to the word spoken during the recognition phase.
5. In a voice recognition method wherein a main memory has addresses directly corresponding to digital values of spoken words, the contents at each address corresponding to the position of the word in a vocabulary, recognition including the steps: converting a spoken word to a digitized form; performing time compression of the digitized word to standardize the length of each word wherein each compressed word has a corresponding digital score; addressing the main memory at the location directly corresponding to the score; reading out, from main memory, the position of the word in the vocabulary; addressing a vocabulary memory at a memory location corresponding to the position of the word in vocabulary; and reading out a word stored at the vocabulary memory location, corresponding to the word spoken during the recognition phase. 6. The method set forth in claim 5 wherein a previously unscored word occurring after time compression in the recognition phase undergoes recognition during the steps including: performing a bidirectional linear search of the main memory to find the word having the closest score to that of the unscored word; querying a user as to whether the unscored word has been correctly searched and, if not; identifyIng the vocabulary position of the unscored word; and storing the vocabulary position of the word at the score address.