16. The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting the one or more candidate utterances includes selecting utterances from the database that have lexical stress patterns that substantially match lexical stress patterns of the received text.
16. The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting the one or more candidate utterances includes selecting utterances from the database that have lexical stress patterns that substantially match lexical stress patterns of the received text. 17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the lexical stress patterns comprise exact lexical stress patterns or canonical lexical stress patterns.