Yes. I didn't mean to propose that. I know that speech recognition already considers alternatives and probabilities. The main focus of my proposal is something

Yes. I didn't mean to propose that. I know that speech recognition already considers alternatives and probabilities. The main focus of my proposal is something different: a more intuitive «understanding» using neural networks and lexicons. This is somewhat orthogonal to speech recognition. Then I suggested that this «understanding» could help make speech recognition more reliable by adjusting of some probabilities. You see, I have an important insight as a Deaf person. Lipreading only offers a small part of what a person could understand by hearing. But I am often still able to understand what a person says by guessing and using the discourse context to fill in the blanks. I am sure that we all do that to some extent, or we wouldn't have homonyms in the language. This insight tells me that perhaps a disrupting innovation would be a more natural «understanding» of text (in written form) with the help of neural networks and a lexicon.