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chairlaw on March 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google opens access to its speech recognition API

What is the difference from a speech recognition API and [NLP libraries](https://opennlp.apache.org/)? This information was not easily found with a few google searches, so I figured others might have the same question.

jbkkd on March 23, 2016 [–]

NLP libraries process written text. This new API processes speech and extracts text from it.

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