Patent ID: 8126719
Filing Date: 2012-02-28
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A system supporting speech recognition comprising: two or more clients, each client comprising the capability to receive audio speech from a user, store the audio speech in one or more buffers in an uncompressed audio format, each buffer comprising a portion of the received audio speech, encode the stored audio speech in the one or more buffers before all of the audio speech is received, package the encoded audio speech into one or more packets to be transmitted over the Internet before all of the audio speech is received, and transmit a packet of encoded audio speech over the Internet before all of the audio speech is received; a server, the server comprising the capability to receive packets of encoded audio speech from at least two clients, decode each of the packets of audio speech and store the resultant speech into one or more buffers for the respective client, and evaluate the resultant speech received from each of the at least two clients, wherein the server further comprises the capability to transmit a response to a client, the response a result of the server's evaluation of the resultant speech received from the client, and the server alters a processing time used to evaluate the resultant speech based on a value communicated between the client and the server, and a client of the two or more clients further comprises the capability to receive the response from the server.