Speech Recognition API - "is it or ain't it?"

[mobile.developer]

Is speech recognition api going to be part of android sdk or not? Web search found nothing but confusion and broken promises. The API was suddenly yanked with statement "android.speech.recognition Temporarily unavailable (stabilization)". Pardon my naivety, but isn't all beta unstable to some extent?

Regardless, still very interested in learning when the speech recognition api will be added back; I had thought of many cool ways of using it! Curious, was speech api available for the android challenge too?

PS: Why is 'android.speech.recognition' package in m5-rc15 android.jar?

C:\> jar tf C:\android-sdk_m5-rc15_windows\android.jar | findstr speech.recognition

android/speech/recognition/
android/speech/recognition/AbstractEmbeddedGrammarListener.class
android/speech/recognition/EmbeddedGrammarListener.class
android/speech/recognition/GrammarListener.class
android/speech/recognition/AbstractGrammarListener.class
android/speech/recognition/AbstractRecognizerListener.class
android/speech/recognition/RecognizerListener$FailureReason.class
android/speech/recognition/RecognizerListener.class
android/speech/recognition/ParametersListener.class
android/speech/recognition/NBestRecognitionResult$Entry.class
android/speech/recognition/NBestRecognitionResult.class
android/speech/recognition/VoicetagItemListener.class
android/speech/recognition/VoicetagItem.class
android/speech/recognition/SlotItem.class
android/speech/recognition/AbstractSrecGrammarListener.class
android/speech/recognition/SrecGrammarListener.class
android/speech/recognition/AudioAlreadyInUseException.class
android/speech/recognition/AudioDriverErrorException.class
android/speech/recognition/AudioSource.class
android/speech/recognition/AudioStream.class
android/speech/recognition/BNFPlusConfiguration.class
android/speech/recognition/GrammarConfiguration.class
android/speech/recognition/Codec$1.class
android/speech/recognition/Codec$2.class
android/speech/recognition/Codec$3.class
android/speech/recognition/Codec.class
android/speech/recognition/DeviceSpeaker.class
android/speech/recognition/DeviceSpeakerListener.class
android/speech/recognition/EmbeddedGrammar.class
android/speech/recognition/Grammar.class
android/speech/recognition/EmbeddedRecognizer.class
android/speech/recognition/Recognizer.class
android/speech/recognition/G2GConfiguration.class
android/speech/recognition/GrammarOverflowException.class
android/speech/recognition/Logger$LogLevel.class
android/speech/recognition/Logger.class
android/speech/recognition/MediaFileReader$Mode.class
android/speech/recognition/MediaFileReader.class
android/speech/recognition/MediaFileReaderListener.class
android/speech/recognition/MediaFileWriter.class
android/speech/recognition/MediaFileWriterListener.class
android/speech/recognition/Microphone.class
android/speech/recognition/MicrophoneListener.class
android/speech/recognition/RecognitionResult.class
android/speech/recognition/SrecGrammar$Item.class
android/speech/recognition/SrecGrammar.class
android/speech/recognition/WordItem.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/
android/speech/recognition/impl/AudioStreamImpl.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/DeviceSpeakerImpl.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/EmbeddedGrammarImpl.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/GrammarImpl.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/EmbeddedRecognizerImpl.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/EntryImpl.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/LoggerImpl.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/MediaFileReaderImpl.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/MediaFileWriterImpl.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/MicrophoneImpl.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/NBestRecognitionResultImpl.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/SrecGrammarImpl.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/System$1.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/System.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/VoicetagItemImpl.class
android/speech/recognition/impl/WordItemImpl.class

[under2x]

I'd love to hear the story on this as well... just looking into it and I cannot find any recent/relevant information. It appears to be not in the sdk at the moment, can we get any word on when it will be added?