Abstract: A speech-to-text conversion system which comprises a plurality of user terminals for recording speeches, at least one automatic speech recognition processor to generate text from recorded speeches, and communication links to return corresponding texts to respective users. At least one automatic speech recognition processor improves recognition accuracy using data of the recorded speeches and the corresponding texts, the data being selected dependent upon subject matter area.

Abstract: A speech-to-text conversion system is provided which comprises at least one user terminal for recording speech, at least one automatic speech recognition processor to generate text from a recorded speech file, and communication means operative to return a corresponding text file to a user, in which said at least one user terminal is remote from said at least one automatic speech recognition processor, and a server is provided remote from said at least one user terminal to control the transfer of recorded speech files to a selected automatic speech recognition processor.