Python Client for Google Cloud Speech
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    Python idiomatic client for `Google Cloud Speech`_

.. _Google Cloud Speech: https://cloud.google.com/speech/

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-  `Documentation`_

.. _Documentation: https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-python/stable/speech-usage.html

Quick Start
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.. code-block:: console

    $ pip install --upgrade google-cloud-speech

Authentication
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With ``google-cloud-python`` we try to make authentication as painless as
possible. Check out the `Authentication section`_ in our documentation to
learn more. You may also find the `authentication document`_ shared by all
the ``google-cloud-*`` libraries to be helpful.

.. _Authentication section: http://google-cloud-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/google-cloud-auth.html
.. _authentication document: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-common/tree/master/authentication

Using the API
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`Cloud Speech API`_ enables easy integration of Google speech
recognition technologies into developer applications. Send audio
and receive a text transcription from the Cloud Speech API service.

.. _Cloud Speech API: https://cloud.google.com/speech/

See the ``google-cloud-python`` API `speech documentation`_ to learn how to
connect to the Google Cloud Speech API using this Client Library.

.. _speech documentation: https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-python/stable/speech-usage.html
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