Techniques to provide a standard interface to a speech recognition platform

An apparatus, comprising:

• a speech recognition service implementing an application program interface (API) operative to accept a speech recognition request comprising an audio input and parameters for performing speech recognition on the audio input, and without performing speech recognition on all of the audio input, returning a plurality of speech recognition results as hypertext protocol (HTTP) responses comprising a status attribute indicating an overall success or failure of speech recognition on the audio input.

A mobile computing device, comprising:

• a component operative to communicate a speech recognition request comprising audio input and speech recognition parameters including a lack of speech data to observe and receiving a plurality of speech recognition results returned as hypertext protocol (HTTP) responses comprising a status attribute indicating an overall success or failure of speech recognition on the audio input.