Methods and systems for collecting and analyzing an audience response are provided. An example method commences with determining that a media playing device has played a question within a media stream. The method further includes recording, via an acoustic sensor, an ambient acoustic signal for a pre-determined time interval. The method further includes detecting a presence of a voice of a user in the ambient acoustic signal, providing the ambient acoustic signal to a remote computing system, and performing, by the remote computing system, speech recognition of the ambient acoustic signal to obtain a text response. The method further includes adding, by the remote computing system, the text response to a set of text responses and analyzing the set of text responses to obtain a statistics concerning text results. The method then continues with providing, by the remote computing system, the statistics to a provider of the media stream.