Techniques for processing a speech to text query are described herein. The techniques may include receiving a plurality of speech to text translation alternatives for a phrase of a natural language query, and tagging and parsing each of the translation alternatives based on a static analysis of the known domain that is at least partially structured, known tags of the known domain, and custom rules. The techniques may also include ranking the translation alternatives based on the tagging and parsing and translating the phrase based on the ranking.