A system for incremental natural language understanding includes a media module, a memory storing a software code, and a hardware processor communicatively coupled to the media module. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to receive an audio stream including a first utterance, and generate a first and second incremental speech recognition outputs based on first and second portions of the first utterance. In addition, the hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to determine, prior to generating the second incremental speech recognition output, a first intent of the first utterance based on the first incremental speech recognition output. The hardware processor is further configured to execute the software code to retrieve a first resource based on the determined first intent, and incorporate the first resource in the media content to be played by the media module.