1. A correction device ( 4 ) for correcting a text (ETI) recognized by a speech recognition device ( 2 ) for a spoken text (GTI), where the recognized text (ETI) for spoken words of the spoken text (GTI) includes correctly recognized words and incorrectly recognized words (FETI), with input means ( 13 ) for receiving at least one manually input correction word (KWI), in order to replace at least one of the incorrectly recognized words (FETI) with the at least one correction word (KWI), and with transcription means ( 16 ) for phonetically transcribing at least the input correction word (KWI) into a phoneme sequence (PI(KWI)) and with search means ( 17 ) for finding the phoneme sequence (PI(KWI)) of the at least one correction word (KWI) in phoneme sequences (PI(KTI)) of the words of the recognized text and for issuing position information (PI) which identifies the position of at least one word within the recognized text (ETI) whose phoneme sequence essentially matches the phoneme sequence (PI(KWI)) of the at least one correction word (KWI), and with output means ( 17 ) for issuing said position information (PI) so as to enable an marking of the at least one word identified by the position information (PI) in the recognized text information (ETI).