The method and apparatus for displaying speech recognition results includes a recognition filter (102) that receives a recognition result list (106) which includes a plurality of speech recognized terms (122), wherein each speech recognized term (122) has a term-specific recognition confidence value (124). The recognition filter (102) generates a modified recognition result list (108) that includes one or more speech recognized terms having term-specific recognition confidence values. The method and apparatus also includes a display generator (104) that receives the modified recognition result list (108) and generates a graphical recognition result list (110). The graphical recognition result list (110) includes speech recognized terms and a non-alphanumeric symbol as a graphical representation (274) of the term-specific recognition confidence value (128) and a speech recognized term (126).