Distributed speech recognition for internet access

A search server provides a user address to an information source, to effect an access of the information source by the user. The user sends a request to the search server, and the search server identifies an address (URL) of an information source corresponding to the request. The request may be a verbal request, or model data corresponding to a verbal request, and the search server may include a speech recognition system. Thereafter, the search server communicates a request to the identified information source, using the user's address as the "reply-to address" for responses to this request. The user's address may be the address of the device that the user used to communicate the initial request, or the address of another device associated with the user.