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# Cloud Speech-to-Text documentation

[Read product documentation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/overview)

Cloud Speech-to-Text enables easy integration of Google speech recognition technologies into developer applications. Send audio and receive a text transcription from the Cloud Speech-to-Text API service. [Learn more](/speech-to-text/docs/overview)

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##  Documentation resources 

Find quickstarts and guides, review key references, and get help with common issues. 

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### Guides

  * [ Quickstart: Use client libraries ](/speech-to-text/docs/quickstarts/transcribe-client-libraries)

  * [ Quickstart: Use the command line ](/speech-to-text/docs/quickstarts/transcribe-api)

  * [ Language support ](/speech-to-text/docs/speech-to-text-supported-languages)

  * [ Transcribing audio from streaming input ](/speech-to-text/docs/streaming-recognize)

  * [ Transcribing long audio files ](/speech-to-text/docs/batch-recognize)

  * [ Transcribing short audio files ](/speech-to-text/docs/sync-recognize)




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### Reference

  * [ REST API ](/speech-to-text/docs/reference/rest)

  * [ RPC API ](/speech-to-text/docs/reference/rpc)

  * [ Supported class tokens ](/speech-to-text/docs/class-tokens)

  * [ Client libraries ](/speech-to-text/docs/libraries)




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### Resources

  * [ Pricing ](/speech-to-text/pricing)

  * [ Quotas and limits ](/speech-to-text/docs/quotas)




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