A speech recognition system recognizes an input utterance of spoken words. T he system includes a set of word models for modeling vocabulary to be recognize d, each word model being associated with a word in the vocabulary, each word in the vocabulary considered as a sequence of phones including a first phone an d a last phone, wherein each word model begins in the middle of the first phon e of its associated word and ends in the middle of the last phone of its associated word; a set of word connecting models for modeling acoustic transitions between the middle of a word's last phone and the middle of an immediately succeeding word's first phone; and a recognition engine for processing the input utterance in relation to the set of word models and the set of word connecting models to cause recognition of the input utterance.</ SDOAB>
INTER-WORD TRIPHONE MODELS