System And Method For Distributed Speech Recognition

A system for distributed speech recognition, comprising:

• a prompt provided to a caller during a call;
• a receipt module to receive one or more audio responses from the caller in response to the prompt;
• a distributed speech recognition module to perform distributed speech recognition on the audio responses, comprising:
• a non-overlapping section of a main grammar provided to each of a plurality of secondary recognizers for each audio response;
• a speech recognition module to perform speech recognition on the audio responses by each of the secondary recognizers using the non-overlapping section of the main grammar associated with that secondary recognizer;
• a new grammar generated based on results of the speech recognition from each of the secondary recognizers;
• a further speech recognition module to perform further speech recognition on the audio responses against the new grammar;
• and
• a further prompt provided to the caller based on results of the distributed speech recognition.