Now you can power any app with Google’s speech recognition software

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by Sindy Cator on March 23, 2016 at 8:10 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

Google had plenty to announce for eager developers at its GCP Next event in San Francisco, but perhaps the most interesting was the company’s decision to create a brand new API around its speech recognition technology. Called — what else — the Google Cloud Speech API, developers will now be able to build in Google’s speech recognition of more than 80 languages into any app. Available in real-time streaming or batch mode, the API can facilitate text transcription, voice commands, and a variety of other use cases utilizing the Google Cloud Platform. The Cloud Speech API is one of many efforts Google…