NETWORK UNIVERSAL SPOKEN LANGUAGE VOCABULARY

A network spoken language vocabulary system for a speech application comprises: a network server and a plurality of network clients communicating with one another over a network; a central vocabulary list in the server for recognizable words; a speech recognition engine and a local vocabulary list cache in each of the clients. The cache can have therein previously recognized words communicated from the central vocabulary list in the server and new words recognized by the speech application. Each of the new words can be communicated to the server and added to the central vocabulary list and each of the new words added to the central vocabulary list can be communicated to at least one other of the clients for addition to the cache. The new words can be automatically communicated to and from the server.