1. A method to improve the speed and efficiency of human and computerized speech transcription through an automated transcription management system comprising: monitoring automatically the queue of transcription jobs to be worked; allocating automatically the transcription jobs across a pool of at least one of human computerized transcribing resources; monitoring automatically the performance of the current pool of at least one of human and computerized transcribing resources; creating automatically forecasts of expected future transcribing resource needs and, re-adjusting, by a computing device, automatically the use of currently active transcribing resources, pools of reserve transcribing resources, and recruitment of potential future transcribing resources to meet the transcription job forecasts.