A method of identifying homophones of a word uttered by a user from at least a portion of existing words of a vocabulary of a speech recognition engine comprises the steps of: a user uttering the word; decoding the uttered word; computing respective measures between the decoded word and at least a portion...http://www.google.de/patents/US6269335?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6269335 - Apparatus and methods for identifying homophones among words in a speech recognition system