10. A method for transmitting a text message with a navigation system comprising: providing a vehicle interface for permitting a user to provide input to and receive output from a vehicle navigation system; activating an input for receiving a speech signal from a vehicle mounted microphone via the vehicle interface; detecting the speech signal by the input; using a processor for recognizing the speech signal by comparing the speech signal with sample signals stored in a speech database; generating the text message comprising text from the recognized speech signal; outputting the text message for verification, the outputting including displaying at least part of the text message on a display and prompting a user of the navigation system to acknowledge the text message displayed on the display; transmitting the text message upon verification; where the recognizing further comprises processing the speech signal in complete sentences, word-by-word and letter-by-letter, as selected by the user; where the comparing further comprises the use of one or more of the following algorithms: a utilization of probability estimates, an analysis of feature vectors and a concatenation of allophones that constitute a linguistic word; and where the transmitting further comprises selectively sending the text message over a store and forward messaging service or as an electronic mail over at least one of the following paths: a local area network, a wireless fidelity network (Wi-Fi), a wide area network (WAN), the Internet, a radio network, a wireless network and a telephone network.
12. The method of claim 10 where the step of detecting the speech signal includes the step of receiving the speech signal from a microphone embedded in the vehicle.