... number of reasons First, as can be expected the ASR 1-best output is typically error-prone especially when a user query originates from a noisy environment However, ASR word confusion networks ... A Stolcke 2000 Finding consensus in speech recognition: Word error minimization and other applications of confusion networks Computation and Language, 14(4):273–400, October P Natarajan, R Prasad, ... the context of voice local search, users expect overall system response time to be similar to that of web search Consequently, the relatively long ASR latency leaves no room for a slow parser On...