USING SPEECH TO SELECT ALTERNATES WITHOUT VIEWING THEM FIRST

A method and a system within a computer speech recognition system to automatically correct portions of text. The invention receives text derived from a first user input for inclusion in a body of text. Concurrently upon receipt of the first user input, and based upon the first user input, the system identifies a list of alternate text selections potentially intended by the user. Next, the system stores each of the alternate text selections in a memory location associated with the text. In response to a second user input, and without displaying the list of alternate text selections to the user, the system automatically retrieves a first one of the alternate text selections from the memory location and inserts the first one of the alternate text selections in place of the text in the body of text.