Big Blue is releasing code to the Apache and Eclipse Foundations, but users will need to buy a proprietary speech-recognition system to take advantage of this.

To demonstrate how speech recognition application is created, let’s first try to use Pocketsphinx with Python. Python API is really simple, example is just six lines of code.

IBM will release the code of various runtime and tool components to the open-source community to make it easier for developers to add speech-recognition capability to Web applications. The company ...