1. A computer-implemented document processing method comprising: receiving, from a document originator, metadata that identifies a document, wherein the document includes a plurality of document terms and is to be distributed to a document recipient as part of a workflow; saving, in a document repository, an audio recording corresponding to at least a portion of the document terms that are included within the document; sending, to the document recipient in response to a received request, at least a portion of the audio recording; prompting the document recipient with an audible request to provide a spoken response to at least one of the document and the audio recording; receiving, from the document recipient, the spoken response; and saving the spoken response such that it is correlated with the document.