11. Speech recognition method of claim 1 , comprising the step of: assigning a speech recognition engine to an application program that expects speech input.
11. Speech recognition method of claim 1 , comprising the step of: assigning a speech recognition engine to an application program that expects speech input. 18. Speech recognition method of claim 11 , wherein, when a plurality of speech recognition hypotheses generated by different speech recognition engines have similar scores and one of the application programs associated with these speech recognition engines is at present in the foreground, the application program in the foreground receives the recognition result and remains in the foreground.