A year after its launch, the Cloud Speech API gets more capabilities that take it beyond Google's internal needs.

The Google Cloud Speech API, the speech recognition tools that are used in Google Assistant, is now open for all third-party developers.

The Google Cloud Speech API, the speech recognition tools that are used in Google Assistant, is now open for all third-party developers.

Google has announced a number of notable updates to its Cloud Speech API, a product first unveiled as part of the company’s Cloud Machine Learning platform last year.

Google is planning to compete with Nuance and other voice recognition companies head on by opening up its speech recognition API to third-party developers. To attract developers, the app will be ...

Google Cloud on Tuesday announced the general availability of its Cloud Text-to-Speech API, which lets developers add natural-sounding speech to their devices or applications.

Google's speech API can handle 80 languages and variants, while its now-rival Nuance only seems to support 38.

Using speech recognition and natural language annotation, a week of television news is explored using Google Cloud's AI tools to understand just what it is we see when we turn on our televisions.