John Funge - 2001-10-16

Is there an easy and efficient way to return a list of
recognized phrases together with some measure of
confidence in each one when running in "live" mode?

The reasons I am concerned that this could be
problematic are listed below:

1. In fbs.h it states:

   float conf;         /* Confidence measure (roughly
                               prob(correct)) for this word;
                               NOT FILLED IN BY THE
                               RECOGNIZER at the moment!! */

2. In sphinx2.html it states (where it describes -nbest):

   No. of N-best hypotheses to be produced. Currently,
   this flag is only useful in batch mode. But an application
   can always directly invoke search_get_alt to obtain them.
   Also, the current implementation is lacking in some
   details (e.g., in returning detailed scores).

Thanks in advance.

John