Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for distributed automatic speech recognition. An example apparatus includes a detector to process an input audio signal and identify a portion of the input audio signal including a sound to be evaluated, the sound to be evaluated organized into a plurality of audio features representing the sound. The example apparatus includes a quantizer to process the audio features using a quantization process to reduce the audio features to generate a reduced set of audio features for transmission. The example apparatus includes a transmitter to transmit the reduced set of audio features over a low-energy communication channel for processing.