1. A compressed voice communication system, comprising: at least two customer premise devices connected by a transmission media for allowing signals to be transmitted between said customer premise devices; each of said at least two customer premise devices comprising: means for receiving speech from an individual; a speech profile defining coefficients of speech for the individual in a mathematical model; means for detecting changes in the individual's speech, said changes being defined by at least one of said coefficients of speech; means for converting said speech to text which operates in response to means for detecting to add hypertext characters to said text indicative of said detected changes; means for transmitting said text from one customer premise device over said transmission media for receipt at another one of the at least two customer premise devices; means for converting said text received from said transmission media to speech; and means for delivering speech to the individual.
9. The system according to claim 1, wherein said means for converting text received from said transmission media to speech uses the speech profile of the individual whose speech is being converted.