12. A system for recognizing speech, comprising: a hardware-implemented processor that has a speech recognizer configured to analyze speech input and generate a hypothesis of multiple elements and respective confidence factors for the multiple elements; an acceptance algorithm that compares the confidence factor of at least one element to an acceptance threshold for accepting or not accepting the element; an adjustment component that compares at least a portion of the hypothesis containing an element that is not accepted to at least a portion of an expected response; and if the comparison of the portion of the hypothesis containing the unaccepted element with the portion of the expected response is favorable, the system operable for storing the unaccepted element for subsequent analysis and proceeding to further analyze another element of the hypothesis.
12. A system for recognizing speech, comprising: a hardware-implemented processor that has a speech recognizer configured to analyze speech input and generate a hypothesis of multiple elements and respective confidence factors for the multiple elements; an acceptance algorithm that compares the confidence factor of at least one element to an acceptance threshold for accepting or not accepting the element; an adjustment component that compares at least a portion of the hypothesis containing an element that is not accepted to at least a portion of an expected response; and if the comparison of the portion of the hypothesis containing the unaccepted element with the portion of the expected response is favorable, the system operable for storing the unaccepted element for subsequent analysis and proceeding to further analyze another element of the hypothesis. 14. The system of claim 12 wherein each element is an individual word.