# Cloud Speech-to-Text API . speech

## Instance Methods

Close httplib2 connections.

Performs asynchronous speech recognition: receive results via the google.longrunning.Operations interface. Returns either an `Operation.error` or an `Operation.response` which contains a `LongRunningRecognizeResponse` message. For more information on asynchronous speech recognition, see the [how-to](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/async-recognize).

Performs synchronous speech recognition: receive results after all audio has been sent and processed.

### Method Details

`close()`

    Close httplib2 connections.

`longrunningrecognize(body=None, x__xgafv=None)`

    Performs asynchronous speech recognition: receive results via the google.longrunning.Operations interface. Returns either an `Operation.error` or an `Operation.response` which contains a `LongRunningRecognizeResponse` message. For more information on asynchronous speech recognition, see the [how-to](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/async-recognize).

    Args:
      body: object, The request body.
        The object takes the form of:

    { # The top-level message sent by the client for the `LongRunningRecognize` method.
        "config": { # Provides information to the recognizer that specifies how to process the request. # Required. Provides information to the recognizer that specifies how to process the request.
          "languageCode": "A String", # Required. The language of the supplied audio as a [BCP-47](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt) language tag. Example: "en-US". See [Language Support](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/languages) for a list of the currently supported language codes.
          "enableAutomaticPunctuation": True or False, # If 'true', adds punctuation to recognition result hypotheses. This feature is only available in select languages. Setting this for requests in other languages has no effect at all. The default 'false' value does not add punctuation to result hypotheses.
          "audioChannelCount": 42, # The number of channels in the input audio data. ONLY set this for MULTI-CHANNEL recognition. Valid values for LINEAR16 and FLAC are `1`-`8`. Valid values for OGG_OPUS are '1'-'254'. Valid value for MULAW, AMR, AMR_WB and SPEEX_WITH_HEADER_BYTE is only `1`. If `0` or omitted, defaults to one channel (mono). Note: We only recognize the first channel by default. To perform independent recognition on each channel set `enable_separate_recognition_per_channel` to 'true'.
          "encoding": "A String", # Encoding of audio data sent in all `RecognitionAudio` messages. This field is optional for `FLAC` and `WAV` audio files and required for all other audio formats. For details, see AudioEncoding.
          "metadata": { # Description of audio data to be recognized. # Metadata regarding this request.
            "interactionType": "A String", # The use case most closely describing the audio content to be recognized.
            "recordingDeviceType": "A String", # The type of device the speech was recorded with.
            "originalMediaType": "A String", # The original media the speech was recorded on.
            "audioTopic": "A String", # Description of the content. Eg. "Recordings of federal supreme court hearings from 2012".
            "recordingDeviceName": "A String", # The device used to make the recording. Examples 'Nexus 5X' or 'Polycom SoundStation IP 6000' or 'POTS' or 'VoIP' or 'Cardioid Microphone'.
            "originalMimeType": "A String", # Mime type of the original audio file. For example `audio/m4a`, `audio/x-alaw-basic`, `audio/mp3`, `audio/3gpp`. A list of possible audio mime types is maintained at http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#audio
            "microphoneDistance": "A String", # The audio type that most closely describes the audio being recognized.
            "industryNaicsCodeOfAudio": 42, # The industry vertical to which this speech recognition request most closely applies. This is most indicative of the topics contained in the audio. Use the 6-digit NAICS code to identify the industry vertical - see https://www.naics.com/search/.
          },
          "enableWordTimeOffsets": True or False, # If `true`, the top result includes a list of words and the start and end time offsets (timestamps) for those words. If `false`, no word-level time offset information is returned. The default is `false`.
          "diarizationConfig": { # Config to enable speaker diarization. # Config to enable speaker diarization and set additional parameters to make diarization better suited for your application. Note: When this is enabled, we send all the words from the beginning of the audio for the top alternative in every consecutive STREAMING responses. This is done in order to improve our speaker tags as our models learn to identify the speakers in the conversation over time. For non-streaming requests, the diarization results will be provided only in the top alternative of the FINAL SpeechRecognitionResult.
            "minSpeakerCount": 42, # Minimum number of speakers in the conversation. This range gives you more flexibility by allowing the system to automatically determine the correct number of speakers. If not set, the default value is 2.
            "speakerTag": 42, # Output only. Unused.
            "enableSpeakerDiarization": True or False, # If 'true', enables speaker detection for each recognized word in the top alternative of the recognition result using a speaker_tag provided in the WordInfo.
            "maxSpeakerCount": 42, # Maximum number of speakers in the conversation. This range gives you more flexibility by allowing the system to automatically determine the correct number of speakers. If not set, the default value is 6.
          },
          "maxAlternatives": 42, # Maximum number of recognition hypotheses to be returned. Specifically, the maximum number of `SpeechRecognitionAlternative` messages within each `SpeechRecognitionResult`. The server may return fewer than `max_alternatives`. Valid values are `0`-`30`. A value of `0` or `1` will return a maximum of one. If omitted, will return a maximum of one.
          "useEnhanced": True or False, # Set to true to use an enhanced model for speech recognition. If `use_enhanced` is set to true and the `model` field is not set, then an appropriate enhanced model is chosen if an enhanced model exists for the audio. If `use_enhanced` is true and an enhanced version of the specified model does not exist, then the speech is recognized using the standard version of the specified model.
          "speechContexts": [ # Array of SpeechContext. A means to provide context to assist the speech recognition. For more information, see [speech adaptation](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/context-strength).
            { # Provides "hints" to the speech recognizer to favor specific words and phrases in the results.
              "phrases": [ # A list of strings containing words and phrases "hints" so that the speech recognition is more likely to recognize them. This can be used to improve the accuracy for specific words and phrases, for example, if specific commands are typically spoken by the user. This can also be used to add additional words to the vocabulary of the recognizer. See [usage limits](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/quotas#content). List items can also be set to classes for groups of words that represent common concepts that occur in natural language. For example, rather than providing phrase hints for every month of the year, using the $MONTH class improves the likelihood of correctly transcribing audio that includes months.
                "A String",
              ],
            },
          ],
          "profanityFilter": True or False, # If set to `true`, the server will attempt to filter out profanities, replacing all but the initial character in each filtered word with asterisks, e.g. "f***". If set to `false` or omitted, profanities won't be filtered out.
          "sampleRateHertz": 42, # Sample rate in Hertz of the audio data sent in all `RecognitionAudio` messages. Valid values are: 8000-48000. 16000 is optimal. For best results, set the sampling rate of the audio source to 16000 Hz. If that's not possible, use the native sample rate of the audio source (instead of re-sampling). This field is optional for FLAC and WAV audio files, but is required for all other audio formats. For details, see AudioEncoding.
          "model": "A String", # Which model to select for the given request. Select the model best suited to your domain to get best results. If a model is not explicitly specified, then we auto-select a model based on the parameters in the RecognitionConfig. *Model* *Description* command_and_search Best for short queries such as voice commands or voice search. phone_call Best for audio that originated from a phone call (typically recorded at an 8khz sampling rate). video Best for audio that originated from from video or includes multiple speakers. Ideally the audio is recorded at a 16khz or greater sampling rate. This is a premium model that costs more than the standard rate. default Best for audio that is not one of the specific audio models. For example, long-form audio. Ideally the audio is high-fidelity, recorded at a 16khz or greater sampling rate.
          "enableSeparateRecognitionPerChannel": True or False, # This needs to be set to `true` explicitly and `audio_channel_count` > 1 to get each channel recognized separately. The recognition result will contain a `channel_tag` field to state which channel that result belongs to. If this is not true, we will only recognize the first channel. The request is billed cumulatively for all channels recognized: `audio_channel_count` multiplied by the length of the audio.
        },
        "audio": { # Contains audio data in the encoding specified in the `RecognitionConfig`. Either `content` or `uri` must be supplied. Supplying both or neither returns google.rpc.Code.INVALID_ARGUMENT. See [content limits](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/quotas#content). # Required. The audio data to be recognized.
          "content": "A String", # The audio data bytes encoded as specified in `RecognitionConfig`. Note: as with all bytes fields, proto buffers use a pure binary representation, whereas JSON representations use base64.
          "uri": "A String", # URI that points to a file that contains audio data bytes as specified in `RecognitionConfig`. The file must not be compressed (for example, gzip). Currently, only Google Cloud Storage URIs are supported, which must be specified in the following format: `gs://bucket_name/object_name` (other URI formats return google.rpc.Code.INVALID_ARGUMENT). For more information, see [Request URIs](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/reference-uris).
        },
      }

      x__xgafv: string, V1 error format.
        Allowed values
          1 - v1 error format
          2 - v2 error format

    Returns:
      An object of the form:

        { # This resource represents a long-running operation that is the result of a network API call.
        "metadata": { # Service-specific metadata associated with the operation. It typically contains progress information and common metadata such as create time. Some services might not provide such metadata. Any method that returns a long-running operation should document the metadata type, if any.
          "a_key": "", # Properties of the object. Contains field @type with type URL.
        },
        "done": True or False, # If the value is `false`, it means the operation is still in progress. If `true`, the operation is completed, and either `error` or `response` is available.
        "error": { # The `Status` type defines a logical error model that is suitable for different programming environments, including REST APIs and RPC APIs. It is used by [gRPC](https://github.com/grpc). Each `Status` message contains three pieces of data: error code, error message, and error details. You can find out more about this error model and how to work with it in the [API Design Guide](https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/errors). # The error result of the operation in case of failure or cancellation.
          "message": "A String", # A developer-facing error message, which should be in English. Any user-facing error message should be localized and sent in the google.rpc.Status.details field, or localized by the client.
          "details": [ # A list of messages that carry the error details. There is a common set of message types for APIs to use.
            {
              "a_key": "", # Properties of the object. Contains field @type with type URL.
            },
          ],
          "code": 42, # The status code, which should be an enum value of google.rpc.Code.
        },
        "name": "A String", # The server-assigned name, which is only unique within the same service that originally returns it. If you use the default HTTP mapping, the `name` should be a resource name ending with `operations/{unique_id}`.
        "response": { # The normal response of the operation in case of success. If the original method returns no data on success, such as `Delete`, the response is `google.protobuf.Empty`. If the original method is standard `Get`/`Create`/`Update`, the response should be the resource. For other methods, the response should have the type `XxxResponse`, where `Xxx` is the original method name. For example, if the original method name is `TakeSnapshot()`, the inferred response type is `TakeSnapshotResponse`.
          "a_key": "", # Properties of the object. Contains field @type with type URL.
        },
      }

`recognize(body=None, x__xgafv=None)`

    Performs synchronous speech recognition: receive results after all audio has been sent and processed.

    Args:
      body: object, The request body.
        The object takes the form of:

    { # The top-level message sent by the client for the `Recognize` method.
        "audio": { # Contains audio data in the encoding specified in the `RecognitionConfig`. Either `content` or `uri` must be supplied. Supplying both or neither returns google.rpc.Code.INVALID_ARGUMENT. See [content limits](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/quotas#content). # Required. The audio data to be recognized.
          "content": "A String", # The audio data bytes encoded as specified in `RecognitionConfig`. Note: as with all bytes fields, proto buffers use a pure binary representation, whereas JSON representations use base64.
          "uri": "A String", # URI that points to a file that contains audio data bytes as specified in `RecognitionConfig`. The file must not be compressed (for example, gzip). Currently, only Google Cloud Storage URIs are supported, which must be specified in the following format: `gs://bucket_name/object_name` (other URI formats return google.rpc.Code.INVALID_ARGUMENT). For more information, see [Request URIs](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/reference-uris).
        },
        "config": { # Provides information to the recognizer that specifies how to process the request. # Required. Provides information to the recognizer that specifies how to process the request.
          "languageCode": "A String", # Required. The language of the supplied audio as a [BCP-47](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt) language tag. Example: "en-US". See [Language Support](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/languages) for a list of the currently supported language codes.
          "enableAutomaticPunctuation": True or False, # If 'true', adds punctuation to recognition result hypotheses. This feature is only available in select languages. Setting this for requests in other languages has no effect at all. The default 'false' value does not add punctuation to result hypotheses.
          "audioChannelCount": 42, # The number of channels in the input audio data. ONLY set this for MULTI-CHANNEL recognition. Valid values for LINEAR16 and FLAC are `1`-`8`. Valid values for OGG_OPUS are '1'-'254'. Valid value for MULAW, AMR, AMR_WB and SPEEX_WITH_HEADER_BYTE is only `1`. If `0` or omitted, defaults to one channel (mono). Note: We only recognize the first channel by default. To perform independent recognition on each channel set `enable_separate_recognition_per_channel` to 'true'.
          "encoding": "A String", # Encoding of audio data sent in all `RecognitionAudio` messages. This field is optional for `FLAC` and `WAV` audio files and required for all other audio formats. For details, see AudioEncoding.
          "metadata": { # Description of audio data to be recognized. # Metadata regarding this request.
            "interactionType": "A String", # The use case most closely describing the audio content to be recognized.
            "recordingDeviceType": "A String", # The type of device the speech was recorded with.
            "originalMediaType": "A String", # The original media the speech was recorded on.
            "audioTopic": "A String", # Description of the content. Eg. "Recordings of federal supreme court hearings from 2012".
            "recordingDeviceName": "A String", # The device used to make the recording. Examples 'Nexus 5X' or 'Polycom SoundStation IP 6000' or 'POTS' or 'VoIP' or 'Cardioid Microphone'.
            "originalMimeType": "A String", # Mime type of the original audio file. For example `audio/m4a`, `audio/x-alaw-basic`, `audio/mp3`, `audio/3gpp`. A list of possible audio mime types is maintained at http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#audio
            "microphoneDistance": "A String", # The audio type that most closely describes the audio being recognized.
            "industryNaicsCodeOfAudio": 42, # The industry vertical to which this speech recognition request most closely applies. This is most indicative of the topics contained in the audio. Use the 6-digit NAICS code to identify the industry vertical - see https://www.naics.com/search/.
          },
          "enableWordTimeOffsets": True or False, # If `true`, the top result includes a list of words and the start and end time offsets (timestamps) for those words. If `false`, no word-level time offset information is returned. The default is `false`.
          "diarizationConfig": { # Config to enable speaker diarization. # Config to enable speaker diarization and set additional parameters to make diarization better suited for your application. Note: When this is enabled, we send all the words from the beginning of the audio for the top alternative in every consecutive STREAMING responses. This is done in order to improve our speaker tags as our models learn to identify the speakers in the conversation over time. For non-streaming requests, the diarization results will be provided only in the top alternative of the FINAL SpeechRecognitionResult.
            "minSpeakerCount": 42, # Minimum number of speakers in the conversation. This range gives you more flexibility by allowing the system to automatically determine the correct number of speakers. If not set, the default value is 2.
            "speakerTag": 42, # Output only. Unused.
            "enableSpeakerDiarization": True or False, # If 'true', enables speaker detection for each recognized word in the top alternative of the recognition result using a speaker_tag provided in the WordInfo.
            "maxSpeakerCount": 42, # Maximum number of speakers in the conversation. This range gives you more flexibility by allowing the system to automatically determine the correct number of speakers. If not set, the default value is 6.
          },
          "maxAlternatives": 42, # Maximum number of recognition hypotheses to be returned. Specifically, the maximum number of `SpeechRecognitionAlternative` messages within each `SpeechRecognitionResult`. The server may return fewer than `max_alternatives`. Valid values are `0`-`30`. A value of `0` or `1` will return a maximum of one. If omitted, will return a maximum of one.
          "useEnhanced": True or False, # Set to true to use an enhanced model for speech recognition. If `use_enhanced` is set to true and the `model` field is not set, then an appropriate enhanced model is chosen if an enhanced model exists for the audio. If `use_enhanced` is true and an enhanced version of the specified model does not exist, then the speech is recognized using the standard version of the specified model.
          "speechContexts": [ # Array of SpeechContext. A means to provide context to assist the speech recognition. For more information, see [speech adaptation](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/context-strength).
            { # Provides "hints" to the speech recognizer to favor specific words and phrases in the results.
              "phrases": [ # A list of strings containing words and phrases "hints" so that the speech recognition is more likely to recognize them. This can be used to improve the accuracy for specific words and phrases, for example, if specific commands are typically spoken by the user. This can also be used to add additional words to the vocabulary of the recognizer. See [usage limits](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/quotas#content). List items can also be set to classes for groups of words that represent common concepts that occur in natural language. For example, rather than providing phrase hints for every month of the year, using the $MONTH class improves the likelihood of correctly transcribing audio that includes months.
                "A String",
              ],
            },
          ],
          "profanityFilter": True or False, # If set to `true`, the server will attempt to filter out profanities, replacing all but the initial character in each filtered word with asterisks, e.g. "f***". If set to `false` or omitted, profanities won't be filtered out.
          "sampleRateHertz": 42, # Sample rate in Hertz of the audio data sent in all `RecognitionAudio` messages. Valid values are: 8000-48000. 16000 is optimal. For best results, set the sampling rate of the audio source to 16000 Hz. If that's not possible, use the native sample rate of the audio source (instead of re-sampling). This field is optional for FLAC and WAV audio files, but is required for all other audio formats. For details, see AudioEncoding.
          "model": "A String", # Which model to select for the given request. Select the model best suited to your domain to get best results. If a model is not explicitly specified, then we auto-select a model based on the parameters in the RecognitionConfig. *Model* *Description* command_and_search Best for short queries such as voice commands or voice search. phone_call Best for audio that originated from a phone call (typically recorded at an 8khz sampling rate). video Best for audio that originated from from video or includes multiple speakers. Ideally the audio is recorded at a 16khz or greater sampling rate. This is a premium model that costs more than the standard rate. default Best for audio that is not one of the specific audio models. For example, long-form audio. Ideally the audio is high-fidelity, recorded at a 16khz or greater sampling rate.
          "enableSeparateRecognitionPerChannel": True or False, # This needs to be set to `true` explicitly and `audio_channel_count` > 1 to get each channel recognized separately. The recognition result will contain a `channel_tag` field to state which channel that result belongs to. If this is not true, we will only recognize the first channel. The request is billed cumulatively for all channels recognized: `audio_channel_count` multiplied by the length of the audio.
        },
      }

      x__xgafv: string, V1 error format.
        Allowed values
          1 - v1 error format
          2 - v2 error format

    Returns:
      An object of the form:

        { # The only message returned to the client by the `Recognize` method. It contains the result as zero or more sequential `SpeechRecognitionResult` messages.
        "results": [ # Sequential list of transcription results corresponding to sequential portions of audio.
          { # A speech recognition result corresponding to a portion of the audio.
            "alternatives": [ # May contain one or more recognition hypotheses (up to the maximum specified in `max_alternatives`). These alternatives are ordered in terms of accuracy, with the top (first) alternative being the most probable, as ranked by the recognizer.
              { # Alternative hypotheses (a.k.a. n-best list).
                "words": [ # A list of word-specific information for each recognized word. Note: When `enable_speaker_diarization` is true, you will see all the words from the beginning of the audio.
                  { # Word-specific information for recognized words.
                    "endTime": "A String", # Time offset relative to the beginning of the audio, and corresponding to the end of the spoken word. This field is only set if `enable_word_time_offsets=true` and only in the top hypothesis. This is an experimental feature and the accuracy of the time offset can vary.
                    "startTime": "A String", # Time offset relative to the beginning of the audio, and corresponding to the start of the spoken word. This field is only set if `enable_word_time_offsets=true` and only in the top hypothesis. This is an experimental feature and the accuracy of the time offset can vary.
                    "speakerTag": 42, # Output only. A distinct integer value is assigned for every speaker within the audio. This field specifies which one of those speakers was detected to have spoken this word. Value ranges from '1' to diarization_speaker_count. speaker_tag is set if enable_speaker_diarization = 'true' and only in the top alternative.
                    "word": "A String", # The word corresponding to this set of information.
                  },
                ],
                "confidence": 3.14, # The confidence estimate between 0.0 and 1.0. A higher number indicates an estimated greater likelihood that the recognized words are correct. This field is set only for the top alternative of a non-streaming result or, of a streaming result where `is_final=true`. This field is not guaranteed to be accurate and users should not rely on it to be always provided. The default of 0.0 is a sentinel value indicating `confidence` was not set.
                "transcript": "A String", # Transcript text representing the words that the user spoke.
              },
            ],
            "channelTag": 42, # For multi-channel audio, this is the channel number corresponding to the recognized result for the audio from that channel. For audio_channel_count = N, its output values can range from '1' to 'N'.
          },
        ],
      }