1. A system of statistically analyzing search terms for detection by a speech recognition engine, comprising an interface adapted to receive a text-based search term; a textual-linguistic analysis module adapted to detect one or more textual features within the search term and generate a first score associated with the search term; a phonetic conversion module adapted convert the text-based search term into a phoneme string; a phonemic-linguistic analysis module adapted to detect one or more phonemic features within the phoneme string and generate a second score associated with the search term; a score normalization module adapted to normalize the first and second scores and output a search term score to a user or process.