1. A personal computing device for use with an automatic speech recognition engine, the device comprising: a communications port configured to receive a data set from the automatic speech recognition engine, wherein the data set includes a word list for candidate words with confidence scores generated by the automatic speech recognition engine in response to audio data; a display device for displaying information to a user; memory for at least temporarily storing personal data and executable code for a re-recognition engine, wherein the re-recognition engine is similar to, but has less speech recognition functionality than, the automatic speech recognition engine; and at least one processor coupled among the communications port, the display device, and the memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to perform a re-recognition of the data set to generate a transcription of the audio data, and wherein the at least one processor is further configured to— access the personal data from the memory, rescore the data set received from the automatic speech recognition engine, using the re-recognition engine, based on the accessed personal data, and present, via the display device, a transcription of the audio to the user based on the rescored data set, or transmit, via the communications port, the rescored data set to the automatic speech recognition engine.