26. The application services interface system of claim 22 where the application-based automatic speech recognition controller and the automatic speech recognition control engine are compliant with a Plug and Play specification.
22. An application services interface system comprising: a processor; an automatic speech recognition control application program interface that receives a request for a recognition session from an application-based automatic speech recognition controller; an automatic speech recognition control engine in communication with the automatic speech recognition control application program interface directs the performance of an automatic speech recognition module; and the automatic speech recognition module comprising at least one natural language-based speech engine and at least one grammar-based speech engine generating recognition results in synchronism that compares a spoken utterance to a vocabulary of active grammars to generate recognition results; where the recognition results are generated in a single ASR session between the automatic speech recognition control engine and the application-based automatic speech recognition controller; and where the application-based automatic speech recognition controller is automatically configured to the automatic speech recognition control engine when the application-based automatic speech recognition controller connects to the automatic speech recognition control application program interface.