1. A computerized-method of searching for an element in speech related documents, the method comprising: transcribing, by a controller, a set of digital speech recordings to a set of digital phoneme strings and including the phoneme strings in a set of digital phonetic transcriptions; revers-indexing, by the controller, the phonetic transcriptions according to one or more phonemes such that the one or more phonemes can be used as a search key for searching the phoneme in the phonetic transcriptions; transcribing, by the controller, a textual search term into a set of search phoneme strings; and using, by the controller, the set of search phoneme strings to search for the textual search term in the set of phonetic transcriptions.