Patent ID: 7330815

Claim:
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, each buffer comprising a portion of the received audio speech, encode a buffer of the received audio speech before all of the audio speech is received, package the encoded buffer to receive 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; and 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 raw speech into one or more buffers for the respective client, and a processing time used to evaluate the resultant raw speech will vary based on a value communicated to the server from each respective client.