9. The method of claim 8 comprising the further step of: (m) extending the selected shortest good word path to form at least one extended word path, each extended word including the selected shortest good word path to which is appended a likely follower word.
9. The method of claim 8 comprising the further step of: (m) extending the selected shortest good word path to form at least one extended word path, each extended word including the selected shortest good word path to which is appended a likely follower word. 10. The method of claim 9 comprising the further step of: (n) determining for an extended word path (i) a boundary label interval at which the extended word path most likely ends and (ii) a likelihood at each label interval prior to and including the boundary label interval thereof; (o) assigning the extended word path to the label stack corresponding to the boundary label thereof as an entry therein; (p) deleting from a stack any word path which has been extended; and (q) repeating steps (h) through (p) until no good paths remain; the contents of the complete-path stack corresponding to a likely word path.