18. A system for processing an interaction with a person, comprising a processor, two or more analyst user interface devices in communication with the processor, and a memory in communication with the processor, the memory storing programming instructions executable by the processor to: receive data representing a multi-utterance transaction with the person, the data having multiple elements, a subset of the elements including sensitive customer data; portion the multi-utterance transaction into discrete, logical utterance units; automatically present the utterance units in perceptible form through the analyst interface devices to a number of intent analysts, the utterance units being distributed so that no intent analyst is ever exposed to more than one of said subset of the elements including sensitive customer data; accept intent input from each intent analyst through the respective analyst user interface device, where the intent input characterizes the intent analyst's interpretation of the person's intent expressed in the utterance, and where the intent input is prevented from providing information to be communicated to the person; and automatically communicate a message to the person, in perceptible form and in substantially real time relative to the receiving function, the message being automatically selected from among a predetermined set of possible messages as a function of the intent input accepted from the two or more intent analysts.
18. A system for processing an interaction with a person, comprising a processor, two or more analyst user interface devices in communication with the processor, and a memory in communication with the processor, the memory storing programming instructions executable by the processor to: receive data representing a multi-utterance transaction with the person, the data having multiple elements, a subset of the elements including sensitive customer data; portion the multi-utterance transaction into discrete, logical utterance units; automatically present the utterance units in perceptible form through the analyst interface devices to a number of intent analysts, the utterance units being distributed so that no intent analyst is ever exposed to more than one of said subset of the elements including sensitive customer data; accept intent input from each intent analyst through the respective analyst user interface device, where the intent input characterizes the intent analyst's interpretation of the person's intent expressed in the utterance, and where the intent input is prevented from providing information to be communicated to the person; and automatically communicate a message to the person, in perceptible form and in substantially real time relative to the receiving function, the message being automatically selected from among a predetermined set of possible messages as a function of the intent input accepted from the two or more intent analysts. 26. The system of claim 18 , wherein the programming instructions are further executable by the processor, in connection with the presenting step, to display contextual information about the person's interactive session with the system to each of the two or more intent analysts through the respective analyst user interface device.