7. An article comprising a storage memory unit containing instructions that when executed enable a system to: provide an application program interface (API) operative to receive from a computing device a speech recognition request comprising an audio input and at least two parameters including a uniform resource identifier (URI) link to a grammar, a grammar weight, and a length of silence to observe in the audio input; and return, from a speech recognition engine to the computing device, a first speech recognition result associated with the streamed speech recognition request as a first hypertext protocol (HTTP) response after the length of silence is observed and prior to returning a second speech recognition result associated with the streamed speech recognition request as a second HTTP response, the first and second HTTP responses comprising an extensible markup language (XML) document formatted in a format that includes a status flag indicating an overall success or failure of the speech recognition result for the audio input.
7. An article comprising a storage memory unit containing instructions that when executed enable a system to: provide an application program interface (API) operative to receive from a computing device a speech recognition request comprising an audio input and at least two parameters including a uniform resource identifier (URI) link to a grammar, a grammar weight, and a length of silence to observe in the audio input; and return, from a speech recognition engine to the computing device, a first speech recognition result associated with the streamed speech recognition request as a first hypertext protocol (HTTP) response after the length of silence is observed and prior to returning a second speech recognition result associated with the streamed speech recognition request as a second HTTP response, the first and second HTTP responses comprising an extensible markup language (XML) document formatted in a format that includes a status flag indicating an overall success or failure of the speech recognition result for the audio input. 8. The article of claim 7 , wherein the speech recognition request is a streamed speech recognition request.