The present subject matter at least describes a method and a system (300, 1200) of performing speech-recognition in an electronic device having an embedded speech recognizer. The method comprises receiving an input-audio comprising speech at a device. In real-time, at-least one speech-recognition module is selected within at least one of the device and a server for recognition of at least a portion of the received speech based on a criteria defined in terms of a) past-performance of speech-recognition modules within the device and server; b) an orator of speech; and c) a quality of service associated with at least one of the device and a networking environment thereof. Based upon the selection of the server, output of the selected speech-recognition modules within the device are selected for processing by corresponding speech-recognition modules of the server. An uttered-speech is determined within the input-audio based on output of the selected speech-recognition modules of the device or the server.