18. The system of claim 15 , wherein the data comprises a computer-stored sound file corresponding to human speech.
15. A system for processing an interaction, the interaction including an utterance requiring recognition before being usable for further computer-implemented processing, the system comprising non-transitory computer storage media storing programming instructions executable by at least one processor to: receive data representing an utterance from a computer application; using a proxy processor, automatically initiate processing of the data; select, using ancillary information regarding the utterance, one or more recognizers from a first type of recognizer subsystems and a second type of recognizer subsystems; return a recognition result responsive to results of processing by the one or more recognizers; and automatically update a statistics database responsive to results of processing by the one or more recognizers.