7. The speech coding system of claim 6, further comprising comparison means, responsive to the measures associated with the at least one phonetic token generated by the speech recognition means and the at least one phonetic token generated by the second speech transcribing means, the comparison means comparing the respective measures, for a given speech segment, and generating a comparison signal indicative of which measure is higher.
7. The speech coding system of claim 6, further comprising comparison means, responsive to the measures associated with the at least one phonetic token generated by the speech recognition means and the at least one phonetic token generated by the second speech transcribing means, the comparison means comparing the respective measures, for a given speech segment, and generating a comparison signal indicative of which measure is higher. 8. The speech coding system of claim 7, further comprising combining means, responsive to the comparison signal and the at least one phonetic token generated by the speech recognition means and the at least one phonetic token generated by the second speech transcribing means, the combining means selecting, for the given speech segment, the phonetic token having the higher measure and combining phonetic tokens from other segments therewith.