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Class posterior distributions have recently been used quite successfully in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), either for frame or phone level classification or as acoustic features, which can be further exploited (usually after some “ad hoc” transformations) in different classifiers (e.g., in Gaussian Mixture based HMMs). In the present paper, we show preliminary results showing that it may be possible to perform speech recognition without explicit subword unit (phone) classification or likelihood estimation, simply answering the question whether two acoustic (posterior) vectors belong to the same subword unit class or not. In this paper, we first exhibit specific properties of the posterior acoustic space before showing how those properties can be exploited to reach very high performance in deciding (based on an appropriate, trained, distance metric, and hypothesis testing approaches) whether two posterior vectors …