#!/usr/bin/env python import urllib import urllib2 Recording = 'recording.flac' url = "https://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize?client=chromium&lang=en-us" flac=open(Recording,"rb").read() header = {'Content-Type' : 'audio/x-flac; rate=16000'} req = urllib2.Request(url, flac, header) data = urllib2.urlopen(req) print data.read()