I busted out wireshark to answer my own question. The data is actually getting encoded as speex and being posted to http://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recogni

I busted out wireshark to answer my own question. The data is actually getting encoded as speex and being posted to http://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize http://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize . Maybe google is about to open up its speech recognition API to the masses?