---
id: google-cloud-speech
version: "2.40.0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# google-cloud-speech — Google Cloud Speech API client library

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install google-cloud-speech
uv add google-cloud-speech
poetry add google-cloud-speech

## Description

Python Client for Cloud Speech-to-Text
======================================

|stable| |pypi| |versions|

`Cloud Speech-to-Text`_: Converts audio to text by applying powerful neural network models.

- `Client Library Documentation`_
- `Product Documentation`_

.. |stable| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/support-stable-gold.svg
   :target: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/blob/main/README.rst#stability-levels
.. |pypi| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/google-cloud-speech.svg
   :target: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-speech/
.. |versions| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/google-cloud-speech.svg
   :target: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-speech/
.. _Cloud Speech-to-Text: https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/
.. _Client Library Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/speech/latest/summary_overview
.. _Product Documentation:  https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/

Quick Start
-----------

In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. `Select or create a Cloud Platform project.`_
2. `Enable billing for your project.`_
3. `Enable the Cloud Speech-to-Text.`_
4....

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Python client library for Google Cloud Speech-to-Text that converts audio to text using neural network models via the Google Cloud API.

Verdict: Stable, actively maintained Google-backed library with no known vulnerabilities and low install friction. Suitable for production use, though requires Google Cloud setup and authentication. Apache-2.0 license poses no restrictions for most use cases.

[View on SkillFed](https://skillfed.io/packages/google-cloud-speech) · [View on PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-speech/)