10. The method of operation of claim 8 wherein employing the classifications in detecting a start of speech by a speech detector of the speech recognizer is based at least in part on the received classifications of each of the plurality of frames of audio further includes identifying a set of fragments in which the number of fragments individually classified as speech exceeds a threshold as constituting speech.
11. The method of operation of claim 10 , further comprising: for sets of fragments identified as speech at least one of prepending or postpending additional fragments of audio to the respective set for processing, where the additional fragments of audio occurred immediately before or immediately after the audio fragments of the respective set of fragments.