Google is about to let developers have access to its speech recognition API, according to the latest report from its NEXT conference, via Techcrunch.
No pricing just yet, but, i'm sure the puppy dog technique will bring in lots of developers wanting to adopt the API.

Google is planning to compete with Nuance and other voice recognition companies head on, by opening up its speech recognition API to third-party developers. To attract developers, the app will be free at launch with pricing to be introduced at a later date.

We’d been hearing murmurs about this service developing for weeks now. The company formally announced the service today during its NEXT cloud user conference, where it also unveiled a raft of other machine learning developments and updates, most significantly a new machine learning platform. Google To Open Up Access to its Speech Recognition API [techcrunch.com]