Patent ID: 8131557

Claim:
A system for facilitating the exchange of speech recognition and transcription among users, the system comprising: at least one system transaction manager, using a uniform system protocol, which is a server application that provides a central interconnect point and a communications interface among System components and Users and a bi-directional translation between legacy protocols and the uniform system protocol and receives a speech information request from at least one of the users employing a first user legacy protocol, and configured to route a response to one or more of the users employing a second user legacy protocol, the response comprised of a formatted transcription of formatted spoken text; and at least one speech recognition and transcription engine which is a server application employing a third legacy protocol in communication with the system transaction manager, the speech recognition and transcription engine configured to receive the speech information request from the system transaction manager, to generate a response to the speech information request, and to transmit the response to the system transaction manager; wherein the system transaction manager translates between the first user legacy protocol and the uniform system protocol, between the second user legacy protocol and the uniform system protocol, and between the third legacy protocol and the uniform system protocol.