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How Could Speech Recognition Avoid an Endless Word List?

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Speech recognition must produce words even when the number of possible word forms makes a complete inventory unwieldy. For languages with productive combinations of stems and endings, treating every surface word as unrelated wastes both vocabulary space and evidence.

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