Question

I am currently playing around with Google’s Voice Recognition API for Android SDK. What I want to know is the URL for their voice recognition. You need a data connection to use the feature, so obviously they are parsing things server-side. Does anyone know this URL?

Answer 1

Okay, here’s what I found, building off of this article.

Here is a full TCP dump of the various HTTP and TCP operations that go into a voice search:

    POST /m/voice-search HTTP/1.1

Content-Length: 117

Content-Type: application/octet-stream

Host: www.google.com

Connection: Keep-Alive

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.5; en-us; YP-G1) AppleWebKit/525.10+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Mobile Safari/523.12.2




.....intent-speech-apiR\
!VS 2.1.3 os=[Android 2.3.5 YP-G1]........>.. .".-16508905153536551372.en-US:..... .(.EZL..HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Content-Type: application/x-protobuffer

Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:07:17 GMT

Expires: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:07:17 GMT

Cache-Control: private, max-age=0

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN

X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

Content-Length: 133

Server: GSE




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Content-Length: 3271

Content-Type: application/octet-stream

Host: www.google.com

Connection: Keep-Alive

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.5; en-us; YP-G1) AppleWebKit/525.10+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Mobile Safari/523.12.2



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...HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Content-Type: application/x-protobuffer

Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:07:22 GMT

Expires: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:07:22 GMT

Cache-Control: private, max-age=0

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN

X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

Content-Length: 281

Server: GSE



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Content-Length: 257

Content-Type: application/octet-stream

Host: www.google.com

Connection: Keep-Alive

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.5; en-us; YP-G1) AppleWebKit/525.10+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Mobile Safari/523.12.2



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Content-Type: application/x-protobuffer

Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:07:22 GMT

Expires: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:07:22 GMT

Cache-Control: private, max-age=0

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN

X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

Content-Length: 230

Server: GSE



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It’s a lot to read, but basically what happens in the Android sends voice data over a TCP to 74.125.142.126 on port 19294 (in my case anyway). After that, a POST request is made to 74.125.225.176. Shortly thereafter, The Google Server (from the same IP) responds with a list of possible options, seen here as:

.testing.....D..?..
.test...........
.testting...........
.texting...........

The two URL’s that seems to be involved are http://www.google.com/m/appreq/vs and
http://www.google.com/m/voice-search.

That seems to be the gist of it. Basic HTTP action (GET/POST) requests. I’m not sure how the port 19294 fits into things, but I think it’s the original transmission of voice data, which is processed and returned through HTTP. I hope this can help anyone who stumbles across the same problem.