17. A system for efficiently transcribing verbal messages that are provided to the system over a network, to produce corresponding text, comprising: a plurality of processors coupled to the network, for receiving and processing verbal messages to be transcribed to text; one or more of the plurality of processors processing the verbal messages using an automatic speech recognition (ASR) program to produce automatically recognized text; one or more of the plurality of processors on corresponding one or more workbench stations each providing a graphical interface on a display to enable operators using the one or more workbench stations to review and edit the automatically recognized text, and to further transcribe the verbal messages to produce the edited text; and one or more of the plurality of processors reassembling the edited text, producing final output text messages that can be conveyed to an end user, wherein the one or more of the plurality of processors apply post processing to the automatically recognized text before producing the final output text messages corresponding to the verbal messages that were processed using the ASR program: if editing the automatically recognized text for a whole verbal message by one of the operators on the workbench station will exceed a required turn-around-time, the automatically recognized text is submitted for post processing without using any edits provided by the operator at the workbench station; and if editing segments of at least one of the processed verbal messages will exceed the required turn-around-time, then immediately submitting for post processing: any of the segments of the processed verbal message that were automatically recognized and that have a confidence rating that is greater than a predefined minimum; any of the segments of the processed verbal message that have already been edited or transcribed by one of the operators on the workbench station; and any of the segments of the processed verbal message that were moved into a workbench station queue but have not yet been edited by one of the operators at the workbench station.
17. A system for efficiently transcribing verbal messages that are provided to the system over a network, to produce corresponding text, comprising: a plurality of processors coupled to the network, for receiving and processing verbal messages to be transcribed to text; one or more of the plurality of processors processing the verbal messages using an automatic speech recognition (ASR) program to produce automatically recognized text; one or more of the plurality of processors on corresponding one or more workbench stations each providing a graphical interface on a display to enable operators using the one or more workbench stations to review and edit the automatically recognized text, and to further transcribe the verbal messages to produce the edited text; and one or more of the plurality of processors reassembling the edited text, producing final output text messages that can be conveyed to an end user, wherein the one or more of the plurality of processors apply post processing to the automatically recognized text before producing the final output text messages corresponding to the verbal messages that were processed using the ASR program: if editing the automatically recognized text for a whole verbal message by one of the operators on the workbench station will exceed a required turn-around-time, the automatically recognized text is submitted for post processing without using any edits provided by the operator at the workbench station; and if editing segments of at least one of the processed verbal messages will exceed the required turn-around-time, then immediately submitting for post processing: any of the segments of the processed verbal message that were automatically recognized and that have a confidence rating that is greater than a predefined minimum; any of the segments of the processed verbal message that have already been edited or transcribed by one of the operators on the workbench station; and any of the segments of the processed verbal message that were moved into a workbench station queue but have not yet been edited by one of the operators at the workbench station. 20. The system of claim 17 , wherein the one or more of the plurality of processors input the verbal messages to the ASR program and also add the verbal messages to a workbench queue for manual processing by the one or more operators.