1. A speech coding system responsive to an input speech signal provided by a system user, the system comprising: a first speech transcribing means comprising a speech recognition means having a word vocabulary associated therewith, the speech recognition means recognizing words in the input speech signal in accordance with the vocabulary and generating at least one phonetic token representative of the input speech signal; a second speech transcribing means for generating at least one phonetic token representative of a word in the input speech signal which is not in the word vocabulary; channel means, responsive to at least one of the phonetic tokens, for handling at least one of the phonetic tokens in accordance with an application of the speech coding system; and speech synthesizing means, responsive to the channel means, for generating a synthesized speech signal using at least one of a plurality of pre-enrolled phonetic tokens that substantially matches at least one of the phonetic tokens which is representative of the input speech signal provided by the system user.
1. A speech coding system responsive to an input speech signal provided by a system user, the system comprising: a first speech transcribing means comprising a speech recognition means having a word vocabulary associated therewith, the speech recognition means recognizing words in the input speech signal in accordance with the vocabulary and generating at least one phonetic token representative of the input speech signal; a second speech transcribing means for generating at least one phonetic token representative of a word in the input speech signal which is not in the word vocabulary; channel means, responsive to at least one of the phonetic tokens, for handling at least one of the phonetic tokens in accordance with an application of the speech coding system; and speech synthesizing means, responsive to the channel means, for generating a synthesized speech signal using at least one of a plurality of pre-enrolled phonetic tokens that substantially matches at least one of the phonetic tokens which is representative of the input speech signal provided by the system user. 4. The speech coding system of claim 1, wherein the speech recognition means further comprises means for identifying the speaker.