I have a program that receives an audio (mono) stream of bits from TCP/IP. I am wondering whether the speech (speech-recognition) API in Mac OS X would be able to do a speec
There's a number of examples that get copied under /Developer/Examples/Speech/Recognition when you install XCode.
Cocoa class for speech recognition is NSSpeechRecognizer. I've not used it but as far as I know speech recognition requires you to build a grammar to help the engine choose from a number of choices rather then allowing you to pass free-form input. This is all explained in the examples referred above.