Using the Google speech API

Speech recognition:

http://fennb.com/fast-free-speech-recognition-using-googles-in

Here’s a link to the manual for sox (audio converter)

sox.soundfourge.net/sox.html

This is an example of the curl command to run from the command line

curl \
  --data-binary @test.flac \
  --header 'Content-type: audio/x-flac; rate=16000' \
  'https://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize?xjerr=1&client=chromium&pfilter=2&lang=en-US&maxresults=6'