The word item is a representation of a word lattice with nodes corrseponding to times in the signal and arcs containing word names and probabilities. Currently, the only lattice format supported is the lattice output from the Abbot recognition system.
Options -I Identify the program version.
Node numbering is assumed to be fixed step time based. Identify the text file format. The maximum word name length is set in sfs.h to be 32 characters.