6. A method of providing transcription of a conference between a plurality of participants of the conference, the method comprising: receiving information over a plurality of transmission channels from the plurality of participants; using at least one processor to analyze the information received at the plurality of reception stages to determine which of the plurality of participants of the conference is speaking during a given time interval based, at least in part, on identifying which of the plurality of reception stages is receiving speech information; selecting one of the plurality of transmission channels corresponding to the reception stage identified as receiving speech information as an in-use channel; determining channel information including at least one transmission parameter that identifies the in-use channel; extracting at least one feature vector from the speech information based, at least in part, on the channel information; performing acoustic segmentation of the speech information to generate acoustic segmentation information indicating at least one segment identified in the speech information based, at least in part, on the channel information and the at least one feature vector, the acoustic segmentation information including a label for the at least one segment of the speech information indicating whether the at least one segment is associated with speech, a pause in speech or non-speech; determining a language of the speech information based, at least in part, on the channel information, the at least one feature vector and the acoustic segmentation information; and generating text information corresponding to words recognized in the speech information based, at least in part, on the channel information, the at least one feature vector, the acoustic segmentation information and the language of the speech information.
6. A method of providing transcription of a conference between a plurality of participants of the conference, the method comprising: receiving information over a plurality of transmission channels from the plurality of participants; using at least one processor to analyze the information received at the plurality of reception stages to determine which of the plurality of participants of the conference is speaking during a given time interval based, at least in part, on identifying which of the plurality of reception stages is receiving speech information; selecting one of the plurality of transmission channels corresponding to the reception stage identified as receiving speech information as an in-use channel; determining channel information including at least one transmission parameter that identifies the in-use channel; extracting at least one feature vector from the speech information based, at least in part, on the channel information; performing acoustic segmentation of the speech information to generate acoustic segmentation information indicating at least one segment identified in the speech information based, at least in part, on the channel information and the at least one feature vector, the acoustic segmentation information including a label for the at least one segment of the speech information indicating whether the at least one segment is associated with speech, a pause in speech or non-speech; determining a language of the speech information based, at least in part, on the channel information, the at least one feature vector and the acoustic segmentation information; and generating text information corresponding to words recognized in the speech information based, at least in part, on the channel information, the at least one feature vector, the acoustic segmentation information and the language of the speech information. 9. The method of claim 6 , further comprising recognizing at least one key word in the speech information based, at least in part, on the language of the speech information, and providing the text information is based, at least in part, on the at least one key word.