Getting Started with Google Cloud Speech API Cloud Academy

Google recently opened its brand new Cloud Speech API – announced at the NEXT event in San Francisco – for a limited preview. This speech recognition technology has been developed and already used by several Google products for some time, such as the Google search engine where there is the option to make voice search. The capability to convert voice to text is based on deep neural networks, state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms recently demonstrated to be particularly effective for pattern detection in video and audio signals. The neural network is updated as new speech samples are collected by Google, so that new terms are learned and the recognition accuracy keeps on increasing. Speech-to-text features are used in a multitude of use cases including voice-controlled smart assistants on mobile devices, home automation, audio transcription, and automatic classification of phone calls.