Methods and systems for managing adaptation data

A target device comprising:

• circuitry configured for generating speech data associated with speech of at least one speech facilitated interaction involving a particular party;
• circuitry configured for performing speech recognition on the speech data to recognize one or more words spoken by the particular party;
• circuitry configured for determining that recognition of at least a portion of the one or more words is taking longer than a duration;
• circuitry configured for requesting adaptation data from a personal device associated with the particular party at least partly in response to recognition of the at least a portion of the one or more words taking longer than the duration, the adaptation data being correlated to at least one aspect of speech of the particular party;
• and
• circuitry configured for applying the adaptation data to update one or more speech recognition capabilities.

A system comprising:

• circuitry configured for detecting speech associated with at least one interaction of a particular party involving a target device;
• circuitry configured for managing speech adaptation data that is correlated to the particular party;
• circuitry configured for receiving a request for at least some of the adaptation data at least partly in response to a result of recognition of at least a portion of the speech taking longer than a duration;
• and
• circuitry configured for updating the target device with the at least some of the adaptation data,
• wherein the at least some of the adaptation data is configured to be applied by the target device to improve one or more speech recognition capabilities.