1. A system for facilitating free form dictation and constrained speech recognition and/or structured transcription among users having heterogeneous system protocols the system comprising: at least one system transaction manager using a uniform system protocol, adapted to receive a verified streamed speech information request from at least one user employing a first user legacy protocol, and configured to route a response to one or more users employing a second user legacy protocol, the speech information request comprised of free form dictation of spoken text and commands and the response comprised of a transcription of spoken text; a user interface capable of bi-directional communication with the system transaction manager and supporting dictation applications, including prompts to direct user dictation in response to user system protocol commands and system transaction manager commands the user interface being in bi-directional communication with the systems transaction manager; and, at least one speech recognition and/or transcription engine communicating with the system systems transaction manager wherein the speech recognition and/or transcription engine is configured to receive the speech information request containing spoken text and commands for constrained speech recognition transmitted by the systems transaction manager, to generate structured transcription in response to the speech information request, and to transmit the response comprised of structured transcription to the system transaction manager.
7. The system of claim 1 wherein the free form dictation is directed dictation and the dictation applications, including prompts, are administered and directed by the system.