1. A method for automatically recording audio of a telephone call in a contact center, comprising: establishing the telephone call between a human agent and a remote party using a call handler; determining that consent from the remote party is required to record the telephone call; providing a graphical indication on a computer used by the human agent indicating the consent from the remote party is required to record the telephone call; providing the audio of the telephone call from the call handler to a speech analytics system (“SAS”) using two audio streams, wherein a first audio stream conveys speech of the human agent and a second audio stream conveys speech of the remote party; providing a first one or more speech-related event notifications from the SAS to a call recording application specific module (“CR-ASM”) executing on an application specific processing system indicating the first audio stream comprises a request from the human agent to obtain the consent from the remote party to record the telephone call; detecting by the SAS in the second audio stream the remote party providing the consent to record the telephone call; providing a second one or more speech-related event notifications from the SAS to the CR-ASM indicating the second audio stream comprises the remote party providing the consent to record the telephone call; and causing the audio of the telephone call to be recorded in one or more storage media by the CR-ASM in response to receiving the second one or more speech-related event notifications.