1. A system for obtaining human input related to items of interest to a user, the system comprising: a data store; a computing device comprising at least one hardware processor and in communication with the data store, the computing device operative to: receive a request to obtain human input regarding an item of interest based, at least in part, on query information obtained from the user, the query information including one or more questions regarding the item of interest and one or more query criteria, the one or more query criteria identifying one or more characteristics of a human respondent; identify a first plurality of human respondents by matching the one or more query criteria with human respondent profile information, the human respondent profile information comprising characteristics of individual human respondents; based on a determination that the number of human respondents identified in the first plurality of the human respondents does not satisfy a threshold, modify the one or more query criteria to increase the number of human respondents; identify a second plurality of the human respondents based, at least in part on, the modified one or more query criteria and the human respondent profile information, wherein the number of human respondents identified in the second plurality of human respondents satisfies the threshold; for individual human respondents of the second plurality of human respondents, transmit the one or more questions to a computing device associated with the selected human respondent; and receive one or more responses to the one or more questions generated by the selected human respondent.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the profile information for a human respondent comprises at least one of demographic information regarding the human respondent, availability of the respondent to receive query questions, interests of the human respondent, and information regarding one or more capabilities of the telephony devices of the human respondent.