1. A machine readable storage including a set of instructions for load balancing, said storage comprising: at least one plug-in receptor, wherein the plug-in receptor is compliant with a known industry standard and is associated with a plurality of load balancing algorithms, wherein the load balancer utilizes selected ones of the load balancing algorithms to determine which of a plurality of voice servers are to handle incoming speech processing requests, wherein at least one of the selected ones of the load balancing algorithms includes a speech utilization algorithm; and the speech utilization algorithm configured to calculate a speech utilization score for at least one of the plurality of voice servers based upon a plurality of speech processing specific factors.