1. A method comprising acts of: establishing a real-time communication session between a text exchange client and a speech enabled application; identifying a translation table that includes a plurality of entries, each entry including a text exchange item and a corresponding conversational translation item; receiving a text exchange message that was entered into a text exchange client; detecting at least one text exchange item in the text exchange message, which corresponds to an entry included in the translation table; in the text exchange message, substituting a corresponding conversational translation item for each detected text exchange item; and sending the substitute message to a text input interface of a voice server to be processed, wherein the substituting act occurs in a manner transparent to the text exchange client and to the speech enabled application.