Ruby Client for Cloud Speech API (Alpha)

Cloud Speech API: Converts audio to text by applying powerful neural network models.

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 API.
  4. Setup Authentication.

Installation

$ gem install google-cloud-speech

Migration Guide

The 0.30.0 release introduced breaking changes relative to the previous release, 0.29.0. For more details and instructions to migrate your code, please visit the migration guide.

Preview

SpeechClient

require "google/cloud/speech"

speech_client = Google::Cloud::Speech.new
language_code = "en-US"
sample_rate_hertz = 44100
encoding = :FLAC
config = {
  language_code: language_code,
  sample_rate_hertz: sample_rate_hertz,
  encoding: encoding
}
uri = "gs://gapic-toolkit/hello.flac"
audio = { uri: uri }
response = speech_client.recognize(config, audio)

Next Steps

Enabling Logging

To enable logging for this library, set the logger for the underlying gRPC library. The logger that you set may be a Ruby stdlib Logger as shown below, or a Google::Cloud::Logging::Logger that will write logs to Stackdriver Logging. See grpc/logconfig.rb and the gRPC spec_helper.rb for additional information.

Configuring a Ruby stdlib logger:

require "logger"

module MyLogger
  LOGGER = Logger.new $stderr, level: Logger::WARN
  def logger
    LOGGER
  end
end

# Define a gRPC module-level logger method before grpc/logconfig.rb loads.
module GRPC
  extend MyLogger
end

Supported Ruby Versions

This library is supported on Ruby 2.0+.

However, Ruby 2.3 or later is strongly recommended, as earlier releases have reached or are nearing end-of-life. After June 1, 2018, Google will provide official support only for Ruby versions that are considered current and supported by Ruby Core (that is, Ruby versions that are either in normal maintenance or in security maintenance). See https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/branches/ for further details.