Abstract: A computing system for determining a user intent from a speech input to effect a user intended action is provided. The computer system comprises a set of processing nodes and a controller module. Each processing node is capable of understanding only a subset of words directly relevant to a particular context. The processing nodes of the set are arranged to receive a same speech input, and each processing node attempts to interpret the input, based on its subset of words, to extract therefrom an output indicative of user intent. Each node is unable to interpret any portion of the input containing a word outside of its subset. The controller module receives the outputs from the set of processing nodes and determine a most likely user intent based on the outputs.