13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising: (D) at a client, before (A), transmitting the speech stream and a control stream to the speech recognition server.
13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising: (D) at a client, before (A), transmitting the speech stream and a control stream to the speech recognition server. 14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising: (E) at the client, transmitting a request for a speech recognition result to the server; and (F) at the server: (F)(1) determining whether any speech recognition results are available; (F)(2) if no speech recognition results are available, returning to (F)(1); (F)(3) otherwise, transmitting at least one of the speech recognition results to the client.