16. An electronic device for use in a distributed speech recognition system comprising the electronic device and a network device remote from the electronic device, the electronic device, comprising: an embedded speech recognizer configured to receive input audio uninterrupted by one or more prompts output from the electronic device, wherein the input audio comprises input speech; and at least one processor programmed to: identify multiple types of information in the input speech; determine whether speech recognition by the remote speech recognizer is desired, wherein the determining is based, at least in part, on the identified types of information in the input speech; and in response to determining that speech recognition by the remote speech recognizer is desired, process a first portion of the input speech by the embedded speech recognizer and send a second portion of the input speech to the network device for recognition by the remote speech recognizer.
16. An electronic device for use in a distributed speech recognition system comprising the electronic device and a network device remote from the electronic device, the electronic device, comprising: an embedded speech recognizer configured to receive input audio uninterrupted by one or more prompts output from the electronic device, wherein the input audio comprises input speech; and at least one processor programmed to: identify multiple types of information in the input speech; determine whether speech recognition by the remote speech recognizer is desired, wherein the determining is based, at least in part, on the identified types of information in the input speech; and in response to determining that speech recognition by the remote speech recognizer is desired, process a first portion of the input speech by the embedded speech recognizer and send a second portion of the input speech to the network device for recognition by the remote speech recognizer. 19. The electronic device of claim 16 , wherein the embedded speech recognizer is configured to recognize the entire input speech in response to determining that speech recognition by the remote speech recognizer is not desired; and wherein the at least one processor is further programmed to perform at least one action based, at least in part, on a local speech recognition result produced by the embedded speech recognizer.