METHOD OF DETERMINING THE SPEECH IN A WEB-RTC AUDIO OR VIDEO COMMUNICATION AND/OR COLLABORATION SESSION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

An apparatus and method for determining the speech quality in a Web-RTC audio and/or video communication session. can include receiving an audio data stream comprising speech data transmitted from a second client used by a second participant of the session, transmitting at the at least one first client, the speech data to a transcriber to transcribe the speech data into text data and estimate or otherwise determine a confidence value for the transcribed text data to indicate a probability on the correctness of the word recognition from the speech data. The determined confidence value can be transmitted is from the at least one first client to the second client so the confidence value can be displayed to the speaking second participant via a display device of the client of that user so the user can evaluate his or her speech quality and take corrective action without interruption if needed.