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The full list of languages that work with the Cloud Speech API can be found here.Īdditionally, the post said, the Cloud Speech API will now support files that are longer than three hours in duration, an increase from the previous limit of 80 minutes. The languages will first be offered to Cloud Speech API customers, but will eventually be supported on other Google products, like Gboard, as well.Īs noted by ZDnet’s Stephanie Condon, the extended language support could help Google win over some customers in emerging markets. Another firm, VoxImplant, uses it to better analyze recorded phone conversations between two parties.Īs part of a broader announcement around Google’s voice input capabilities, the Cloud Speech API will now offer support for 30 additional languages, bringing the total number supported up to 119. One of the customers cited in the post, Happy Scribe, uses the word-level timestamps to lower the time it takes for them to proofread the transcriptions they offer their customers. SEE: How we learned to talk to computers, and how they learned to answer back (PDF download) “Word-level timestamps let users jump to the moment in the audio where the text was spoken, or display the relevant text while the audio is playing,” the post said. Essentially, this feature adds a timestamp for each word it identifies in a given transcription. Word-level timestamps, the post said, was the most requested feature for the API from developers. It’s powered by machine learning, and can return its results in real-time.
According to a Google blog post, the API is getting a new feature called word-level timestamps, along with support for 30 new languages and three hour files.įor those unfamiliar, the Google Cloud Speech API uses neural network models to allow developers to convert audio to text. On Monday, Google announced new updates to its Cloud Speech API that could help make it a more effective tool for business users.