1. A system for interpreting from a first language to a second language, comprising: an audio input device configured to receive an input speech utterance; an output device configured to present a communication to a user; and a server having a database and a recognition module and an interpretation module collectively configured to: condition the input speech utterance to produce a conditioned input speech utterance; recognize the conditioned input speech utterance to generate a set of first recognition results; optimize the set of first recognition results by rescoring word-recognition lattice results in conjunction with interpretation lattice results to generate a set of second recognition results; interpret the set of second recognition results by generating one or more interpretation results comprising abstract paraphrased specific concepts; translate the abstract paraphrased specific concepts into a form of a language-independent abstract interlingua; map the abstract paraphrased specific concepts from the language-independent interlingua to a second language in a first selected format; and present the one or more interpretation results in a second selected format on the output device.