and you combine segments from  that same speaker to   and run them through the recognizer. Is that  right ?
Well we try to find as close of start and end time of  as we can to the speech from an individual speaker ,
Mm - hmm.
because then we  we 're more guaranteed that the recognizer will  for the forced alignment which is just to give us the time boundaries , because from those time boundaries then the plan is to compute prosodic features.