I need to recognize a bunch of proper names.  Luckily, most of the individual names (first and last) are already in the voxforge lexicon for Julius.  For example, "Doris" is "d ow r ih s" and "Day" is "d ey".  But if I try to create a compound word DorisDay, concatenating the phonemes for "Doris" and "Day" to be "d ow r ih s d ey", I get an error from Julius at startup, complaining that there are no triphones to bridge the gaps such as "ih s d".  I guess that sequence never appears within a 'word' in English.

I tried putting a 'sil' between the 's' and 'd' but that did not help either.

Is there a way to indicate a break in the triphone sequences to allow combining words in this way?

The trouble I run into is that my toal vocabulary is over 400 full names, and if I put all the individual name words into one class, and say that a "name" is one or more members of this class, than it gets a lot of false hits.

For example, "The Andrews Sisters" are in the list.  "The" and "Day" are close enough that Julius sometimes reports I said "Doris The" instead of "Doris Day".  Obviously, Julius has no knowledge of what is a valid name.  I am looking for ways to increase the odds of a correct recognition without entering a grammar rule for each of the 400+ names.

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