9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein said receiving further comprises receiving rules from the computer application and wherein said processing of the data is performed in accordance with the rules.
8. A computer-implemented method for processing an interaction comprising: receiving data representing an utterance from a computer application; using a proxy processor, automatically initiating processing of the data; selecting, using ancillary information regarding the utterance, one or more recognizers from a first type of recognizer subsystems and a second type of recognizer subsystems; returning a recognition result responsive to results of processing by the one or more recognizers; and automatically updating a statistics database responsive to results of processing by the one or more recognizers.