What is Speech-to-Text (STT)?

Speech-to-Text, or STT, is an easy-to-use API powered by Google’s AI technologies to convert speech into text.

Since Speech-to-Text is powered by Google’s own advanced deep learning models, you can expect state-of-the-art accuracy. You can also customize speech recognition to transcribe domain-specific terms and rare words by providing hints and boosting your transcription accuracy of specific words or phrases.

Speech-to-Text can use one of several machine learning models to transcribe your audio file. The API currently offers voice recognition that supports more than $125$ languages and variants.

Other than the above-mentioned features, the STT API allows you to:

• Transcribe your content in real-time or from stored files
• Deliver a better user experience in products through voice commands
• Gain insights from customer interactions to improve your service

Speech-to-Text is priced based on the amountmeasured in increments rounded up to 15 seconds of audio that is successfully processed by the service each month. However, you can use this service for free if your audio duration does not exceed 60 minutes per month.

If you’re interested in how to incorporate Speech-to-Text in your program, check out the course Google Cloud: AI Speech-to-Text with Python 3.