1. A speech processing method comprising: prompting for a spoken response that provides input for multiple elements; receiving a single spoken utterance comprising content for multiple elements, each of which is mapped to a data field; speech-to-text converting the spoken utterance to derive values for each of the multiple elements; determining that an utterance-level confidence score for the spoken utterance falls below an associated certainty threshold; ascertaining element-level confidence scores for each of the derived elements; determining that a first set of the multiple elements each has an element-level confidence score above an associated certainty threshold and that a second set of the multiple elements each has an element-level confidence score below an associated certainty threshold; storing values for data fields mapped to elements in the first set; and prompting for a new spoken response that provides input for elements of the second set.