20. The system of claim 18 , wherein the customer premise equipment comprises a telephone.
18. A system for remote speech recognition, the system comprising; customer premise equipment remote from a host and configured to interface with the host; a speech recognition engine remotely located from the host and located at the customer premise equipment, wherein the speech recognition engine is configured to: recognize user speech from a user of the customer premise equipment; and convert the user speech into text data packets, wherein the text data packets indicate text corresponding to the user speech; and a communication engine associated with the speech recognition engine and located at the customer premise equipment, wherein the communication engine is configured to: transmit the text data packets to the host; and receive information from the host in response to transmitting the text data packets.