10. A method as in claim 9 including the further step of: selecting a number of words represented by respective baseforms which have the highest match scores.
10. A method as in claim 9 including the further step of: selecting a number of words represented by respective baseforms which have the highest match scores. 11. A method as in claim 10 including the further step of: performing a detailed acoustic match with an unsimplified phone machine for each word of the selected number of words to determine a most probable word.