6. The system of claim 4 wherein the value communicated to the server from a client is a pronunciation accuracy objective, a user selects the pronunciation accuracy objective at a client, the client transmits the pronunciation accuracy objective to the server, and the server evaluates the resultant raw speech received from the client based on the pronunciation accuracy objective.
4. 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 the capability to transmit a response to a client, the response a result of the server's evaluation of the resultant raw speech received from the client, a client of the two or more clients further comprises the capability to receive the response from the server, the response is in text format, and a client of the two or more clients comprises a text-to-speech engine which converts the text format response to audio data, and an audio output device that the client uses to output 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.