15. A mobile computing device comprising at least one processing unit and a memory coupled to the at least one processing unit, the memory having at least one component 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.
15. A mobile computing device comprising at least one processing unit and a memory coupled to the at least one processing unit, the memory having at least one component 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. 20. The device of claim 15 , wherein the request comprises at least one of an HTTP query string; an HTTP POST entity body; and at least one HTTP POST entity body part.