Accessing Google's speech recognition service

Question

In most of the Android phones there is an option to dictate the text rather than typing it. Is it possible to access this service separately using a url? For example, I sent the recorded speech to this service and it then gives me the text output. Is it possible? Could you please let me know?

Answer 1

There is an unofficial Google Speech API that was reversed engineered and posted on this blog. This article shows how to access it using Perl, but it gives you enough direction to figure out how to do it in another language. The problem with using an unofficial API is that it can change without notice and there is no support or documentation.

Nuance has a mobile SDK for speech recognition. I think there is a web service under the hood of this SDK. I know that Nuance purchased a cloud based speech recognition service but it was not clear to me how they incorporated it into their product line.

Another commercially available service is Nexiwave. There use to be a service provided by YapMe, but it looks like it is no longer available.