Collaboration of multiple automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems

A system for integrating acoustic data using speech recognition, comprising:

• a communication module which receives voice data from a plurality of computers each having speech recognition residing thereon, the communication module residing on the plurality of computers or a remote server;
• an evaluator module associated with each of the plurality of computers, the evaluator module analyzes the voice data from each of the plurality of computers;
• and
• an integrator module associated with the evaluator module, the integrator module integrates all of the analyzed voice data from each of the plurality of computers and provides one decoding output.

A machine readable medium containing code for integrating acoustic data using speech recognition, comprising the steps of:

• detecting voice data on a first computer and at least a second computer;
• identifying the voice data as a first master speaker associated with a speech recognition system residing on the first computer;
• providing the voice data of the first master speaker, from the first computer, to the at least the second computer having a speech recognition system residing thereon;
• analyzing the voice data residing on the first computer and the at least the second computer;
• and
• integrating the analyzed voice data from the first computer and the at least the second computer into a single decoding output.