1. A method of replying to an electronically-received message which has been sent from an original message sender to a user who receives the message using electrical hardware, the method including the steps of: (a) displaying a link in the received message; (b) the user selecting the link; (c) the user being connected to a conversion system; (d) the user speaking a reply which is then converted to a text based reply message by the conversion system; and (e) the original message sender, or another destination associated with the link receiving the text based reply message.