System and method for supplemental speech recognition by identified idle resources

A system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
• projecting an expected demand for speech recognition resources;
• identifying, based on the expected demand for speech recognition, a main speech recognizer and a supplemental speech recognizer;
• assigning the main speech recognizer to recognize a plurality of speech from a plurality of speakers;
• beginning to process the plurality of speech using the main speech recognizer, to yield main results;
• and
• upon determining that first speech recognition results of a first user in the plurality of speakers have a lower accuracy than alternative speech recognition results of a second user:
• assigning the supplemental speech recognizer to recognize speech from the first user, wherein the assigning of the supplemental speech recognizer is a reallocation of the supplemental speech recognizer away from the second user;
• continuing to process the speech from the first user using the supplemental speech recognizer and the main speech recognizer, to yield supplemental results;
• and
• combining additional speech recognition results, produced by the main speech recognizer, and the supplemental results.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage device having instructions stored which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

• projecting, via the computing device, an expected demand for speech recognition resources;
• identifying, via the computing device and based on the expected demand for speech recognition, a main speech recognizer and a supplemental speech recognizer;
• assigning the main speech recognizer to recognize a plurality of speech from a plurality of speakers;
• beginning to process the plurality of speech using the main speech recognizer, to yield main results;
• and upon determining that first speech recognition results of a first user in the plurality of speakers have a lower accuracy than alternative speech recognition results of a second user:
• assigning the supplemental speech recognizer to recognize speech from the first user, wherein the assigning of the supplemental speech recognizer is a reallocation of the supplemental speech recognizer away from the second user;
• continuing to process the speech from the first user using the supplemental speech recognizer and the main speech recognizer, to yield supplemental results;
• and
• combining additional speech recognition results, produced by the main speech recognizer, and the supplemental results.