In a speech-recognition system having a plurality of classifiers, a voting window includes a sequence of outputs from each of the classifiers. At each interval in the voting window, the outputs are compared to determine a winning output. A spoken sound is identified by determining which classifier generates...http://www.google.com/patents/US5596679?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5596679 - Method and system for identifying spoken sounds in continuous speech by comparing classifier outputs