Speech and text messaging system with distributed speech recognition and

Abstract

A system for automatically storing a message comprises a first telecommunication device for transmitting and/or receiving an audio message to a second telecommunication device. Both devices are coupled through a first network for transmitting and receiving telephone calls. A first data processing system with a speaker dependent data base and a second data processing system are provided, both are coupled through a second network for data communication. The first data processing system is coupled with the first telecommunication device and the second data processing system is coupled with the second telecommunication device. At least the first data processing system has a speech recognition system, the second telecommunication device has a control unit which generates a signal after receiving the audio message from said first telecommunication device and has a compare unit. Upon generating the signal the second data processing system converts the audio message into digital data and the compare unit compares the size of the digital data with the size of the data base, whichever is smaller is sent to the other data processing system, which converts the digital data into a text file.