Abstract: Speech recognition software is provided in combination with application specific software on a communications network. Analog voice data is digitized at a user's location, identified as voice data, and transmitted to the application software residing at a central location. The network server receiving data identified as voice data transmits it to a speech server. Speech recognition software resident at the speech server contains a dictionary and modules tailored to the voice of each of the users of the speech recognition software. As the user speaks, a translation of the dictation is transmitted back to the user's location and appears in print on the user's computer screen for examination and if necessary, voice or typed correction of its contents. Multiple users have interleaved access to the speech recognition software so that transmission back to each of the users is contemporaneous.