Speech-driven system with headset

A speech-directed system for doing tasks utilizing human speech comprising:

• a headset including a microphone for capturing user speech from a user and a speaker for playing audio to a user;
• an audio digitization circuit that is resident on the headset and operable for converting the user speech to data in a digital data format;
• a raw data application resident in the headset for converting the user speech data in the digital data format to another voice data format;
• a WPAN radio component that is resident on the headset and configured for converting the user speech data in the voice data format into a protocol format;
• a host device configured with a WPAN radio component for transceiving user speech data with the headset in the protocol format;
• a long range wireless network component that is resident on the host device for coupling with at least one remote device through a long range wireless network, the host device operable for transceiving the user speech data with the remote device.

A headset for use in a speech-directed system comprising:

• a microphone for capturing user speech from a user;
• a speaker for playing audio to a user;
• a speech recognition component operable for converting the user speech to data in a data format;
• a WPAN radio component configured for converting the user speech from the data format into a protocol format for transceiving data with a host device over a WPAN wireless link.