1. A method for transcribing verbal messages into text, comprising the steps of: receiving verbal messages over a network and queuing the verbal messages in a queue for processing into text; automatically processing at least portions of successive verbal messages from the queue with online processors using an automated speech recognition (ASR) program to produce corresponding text; assigning whole verbal messages or segments of the verbal messages that have been automatically processed to selected workbench stations for further editing and transcription by operators at the workbench stations; enabling the operators at the workbench stations to which the whole or the segments of the verbal messages have been assigned to listen to the verbal messages, correct errors in the text that was produced by the automatic processing, and transcribe portions of the verbal messages that have not been automatically processed by the ASR program, producing final text messages or segments of final text messages corresponding to the verbal messages that were in the queue; assembling the segments of the final text messages produced by the operators at the workbench stations from the segments of the verbal messages that were processed as text messages corresponding to the verbal messages that were processed, producing final output text messages; and applying post processing to the text corresponding to the verbal messages that were automatically processed, wherein: if editing the automatically produced text for one of the automatically processed whole verbal messages by at least one operator on the workbench station will exceed a required turn-around-time, further comprising the step of immediately post processing the automatically produced text without using any edits provided by the operator at the workbench station; and if editing the segments of one of the automatically processed verbal messages will exceed the required turn-around-time, further comprising the step of post processing any text of the verbal message that was automatically recognized and has a confidence rating that is greater than a predefined minimum, any text of the automatically processed verbal message that have already been edited or transcribed by one of the operators on the workbench station, and any text of the verbal message that was automatically recognized and was moved into a workbench station queue but has not yet been edited by an operator at a workbench station.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of validating a format of the verbal messages and a return address for delivery of the output text messages before enabling queuing of each verbal message.