1. A speech processing system in which speech information is input at a client side, and speech recognition is done at a server side, said client comprising: acoustic analysis means for generating speech parameters by acoustically analyzing speech information; encoding means for compression-encoding the speech parameters; and transmission means for transmitting the compressed-encoded speech parameters, and said server comprising: reception means for receiving the compression-encoded speech parameters; and speech recognition means for making speech recognition using the speech parameters received by said reception means.