12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein identifying multiple types of information in the input speech comprises: processing the input speech by the embedded speech recognizer to determine the first portion of the input audio as corresponding to a first type of information and the second portion of the input audio corresponding to a second type of information.
10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with a plurality of instructions that, when executed by at least one processor on an electronic device in a distributed speech recognition system comprising the electronic device having an embedded speech recognizer and a network device having a remote speech recognizer remote from the electronic device, perform a method comprising: receiving, by the electronic device, input audio uninterrupted by one or more prompts output from the electronic device, wherein the input audio comprises input speech; identifying multiple types of information in the input speech; determining whether speech recognition by the remote speech recognizer is desired, wherein the determining is based, at least in part, on the identified types of information in the input speech; and in response to determining that speech recognition by the remote speech recognizer is desired, processing a first portion of the input speech by the embedded speech recognizer and sending a second portion of the input speech to the network device for recognition by the remote speech recognizer.