16. The system of claim 15 wherein the value communicated to the server from a client is a user objective, a user selects the user objective at a client, the client transmits the user objective to the server, and the server evaluates the resultant raw speech received from the client based on the user objective.
15. A system supporting speech recognition comprising: two or more clients, each client comprising the capability to receive audio speech from a user, store the audio speech in one or more buffers, each buffer comprising a portion of the received audio speech, encode a buffer of the received audio speech before all of the audio speech is received, package the encoded buffer to receive audio speech into one or more packets to be transmitted over the Internet before all of the audio speech is received, and transmit a packet of encoded audio speech over the Internet before all of the audio speech is received; and a server, the server comprising the capability to receive packets of encoded audio speech from at least two clients, decode each of the packets of audio speech and store the resultant raw speech into one or more buffers for the respective client, and evaluate the resultant raw speech received from each of the at least two clients, wherein the server further comprises two or more stored text format files, and the server selects a stored text format file to transmit to a client of the two or more clients as a result of the server's evaluation of the resultant raw speech received from the client, the server further comprises the capability to partition a stored text format file into two or more packets for the transmission over the Internet, and to transmit each packet over the Internet to a client, a client further comprises an audio output device, and the capability to receive the packets of text format, convert the packets of text format to audio data and play the audio data to a user, and a processing time used to evaluate the resultant raw speech will vary based on a value communicated to the server from a client.