Distributed speech recognition method

This invention relates to a distributed speech recognition method comprising at least one user terminal and at least one server which can communicate with each other by means of a telecommunication network. The inventive method comprises the following steps consisting in: at the user terminal, attempting to associate a saved form with the signal to be recognized and, independently of said step, transmitting a signal to the server, indicating the signal to be recognized; and, at the server, attempting to associate a saved form with the signal received.