24. The method of claim 23 , wherein the portable voice profiles are exchanged over a network, and each portable voice profile is associated with a speaker and includes speaker-dependent data accessible to a plurality of speech recognition engines through an interface, the speaker-dependent data to enhance an accuracy with which each speech recognition engine in the plurality of speech recognition engines recognizes spoken words in recorded speech from a respective speaker associated with a respective portable voice profile.
23. A computer-implemented method comprising: facilitating establishing a user as a member of a group using a group manager module of a speech recognition system executing on a computer-based platform; automatically exchanging portable voice profiles, using said group manager module with at least one other user who is a member of the group provided said exchanges are permitted by access control privileges for the portable voice profiles established by owners thereof, said access control privileges accounting for connections between an owner of a portable voice profile and other members of a group to which the owner belongs and instructions of the owner, wherein at least one of the portable voice profiles includes data derived from use with a variety of speech recognition engines; using at least one of the portable voice profiles to determine a current speaker within a voice recording; and utilizing said at least one of the portable voice profiles within a speech recognition process to convert a speech recording to text.