Distributed speech recognition services (DSRS)

Distributed speech recognition services (DSRSs) provide an anytime, anywhere and any-device speech recognition environment that is intelligent enough to interact with users in a more natural manner. The primary goal is to provide users with the ability to dictate commands and/or documents among other potential services. The system coordinates the efforts of applications running in a distributed environment. For example, a user is able to dictate a document using their local word processor and a DSRS´s remotely located speech engine. DSRSs encourage cooperation among individual programs in order to combine the efforts of individual applications to fulfill a user´s request