--- title: Google Cloud Speech-to-Text Reviews meta_title: 'Google Cloud Speech-to-Text Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 312 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Google Cloud Speech-to-Text works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 312 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-14' parent_category: name: Deep Learning url: https://www.g2.com/categories/deep-learning --- # Google Cloud Speech-to-Text Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Voice Recognition Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/voice-recognition) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 312 ## About Google Cloud Speech-to-Text Google Cloud’s Speech API processes more than 1 billion voice minutes per month with close to human levels of understanding for many commonly spoken languages. Powered by the best of Google's AI research and technology, Google Cloud's Speech-to-Text API helps you accurately transcribe speech into text in 73 languages and 137 different local variants. Leverage Google’s most advanced deep learning neural network algorithms for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and deploy ASR wherever you need it, whether in the cloud with the API, on-premises with Speech-to-Text On-Prem, or locally on any device with Speech On-Device. ## Google Cloud Speech-to-Text Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, facilitating swift audio-to-text transcription with great accuracy. (8 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use and accurate transcription** of Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, enhancing meeting productivity. (5 reviews) - Users highlight the **high transcription accuracy** of Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, enhancing workflow and usability across languages. (5 reviews) - Users highly value the **accuracy** of Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, praising its performance across multiple languages and accents. (4 reviews) - Users commend the **real-time transcription** capability of Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, enhancing meetings and live applications effortlessly. (4 reviews) - Speed (4 reviews) - Time-Saving (4 reviews) - Call Quality (3 reviews) - Cloud Storage (3 reviews) - Customer Support (3 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **cost can creep up** significantly when processing high volumes of audio, making it expensive. (3 reviews) - Users note that the **pricing can get expensive** with high audio volume, which may deter some potential users. (3 reviews) - Users report **accuracy issues** with Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, often requiring manual corrections for optimal results. (2 reviews) - Users find the **complexity of managing access** challenging, leading to potential delays and confusion with multiple Google products. (2 reviews) - Users note that the **cost can escalate** significantly when processing large amounts of audio data. (2 reviews) - Users report an **inaccuracy** in Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, especially with noise and non-English speech. (2 reviews) - Poor Transcription Accuracy (2 reviews) - AI Performance (1 reviews) - Error Handling (1 reviews) - Inaccurate Transcription (1 reviews) ## Google Cloud Speech-to-Text Reviews ### 1. Good speech recognition tool with customisation and accuracy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ambuj P. | Associate Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** The support of multiple languages and real time transcription with accuracy of rare words. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** The challenge of different dialects and accent coverage **What problems is Google Cloud Speech-to-Text solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working with people from different teams with no English support to review review the documents and conversations. ### 2. Fast and Accurate Transcription from Google Cloud Speech-to-Text **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** Google Cloud Speech-to-Text supports lots of Languages and the quality of transcriptions are very accurate for almost all accents in English. The results are quite fast transcription is available in the real-time as well as with the upload of audio file. There are SDKs available for different programming languages as well. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** The quality of transcription quality for indic languages are not good. The regional dialects are not picked accurately with Google Cloud Speech-to-Text. **What problems is Google Cloud Speech-to-Text solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is helping us to get the transcription of client calls. This is helping us to properly design the client storylines so that we can keep them engaged and get maximum information ### 3. Used it for a couple of customer projects. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** The API is pretty easy to use and reasonably straight forward to set up and integrate with your application. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** It still takes a bit of processing time. **What problems is Google Cloud Speech-to-Text solving and how is that benefiting you?** The fact that we can easily stream audio files to a proper and well-trained dataset. And get reasonably good results. ### 4. Use Google Cloud Speech-to-Text for Transcription **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** The fact that the ML model from Google is accessible via an APIs makes it easy to interconnect it with custom software process. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** The quality of the Text depends highly on the intonation and the speech speed. If the rate of the speech is too high then the text quality is less accurate **What problems is Google Cloud Speech-to-Text solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can create nice application for customer that needs to make transcription of audio format to text. The API format let us create nice package/custom software that interconnect well with Google AI solutions. ### 5. Best tool for transcribing audio into text files **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael N. | Data Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** It really is an incomparable tool in terms of usability and transcription accuracy **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** Multilanguage support isn't fantastic, as I've found it make more errors than expected in Dutch **What problems is Google Cloud Speech-to-Text solving and how is that benefiting you?** When transcribing user audio input for testing customer service chatbot models ### 6. My review as a cloud engineer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** The high accuracy that provides Google Cloud Speech-to-Text for the transcriptions. Also very smooth voice recognition even with background noises and distress in the speech. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** The cost is very high compared to other competitors in the market. Except that There's nothing to complain, maybe that depending on the accent the accuracy which is low. **What problems is Google Cloud Speech-to-Text solving and how is that benefiting you?** At the moment, i'm not using Google Cloud Speech-to-Text. But It is really helpful for easy audio file conversion and speech analytics. ### 7. GCP speech to text **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammed M. | Solutions Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** converts speech to text so effortlessly. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** some times it doesn't give exact output. **What problems is Google Cloud Speech-to-Text solving and how is that benefiting you?** iit covers the voice to text which makes our search easy ### 8. Great resource for on the go! Though the voice recognition is a bit glitchy.. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** Helpful for when I am busy and on the go and do not have the capacity to text or access my phone manually. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** When data or wifi is spotty, it seems that this also has an impact on the voice recognition and the way that results are populated. **What problems is Google Cloud Speech-to-Text solving and how is that benefiting you?** Facilitates my ability to multi-task effectively. ### 9. Great tool to translate **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Arts and Crafts | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** I like the fact that you can just speak and it auto transcribe. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** Could be a bit more smoother, but this is .. Ai in a sense. **What problems is Google Cloud Speech-to-Text solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps when working with users all over the world to try and get proper translation. ### 10. Dialog flow **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** Easy api to use. Lots of use cases documented. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** Not as accurate as it could be. Ties you to Google storage. **What problems is Google Cloud Speech-to-Text solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use voice calls to navigate a dialogue flow. ### 11. Google Cloud Speech-To-Text **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** M Shafique Q. | Sr. Full Stack Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** I love Google Speech to text to convert my voice to Text. That's really nice. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** I am looking forward to Google To improve it as Voice as subtitle, like google should send the final response as soon as it match with the Regex like 10 words at a time. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Speech-to-Text:** Google speech to text is the best platform for voice recognition. **What problems is Google Cloud Speech-to-Text solving and how is that benefiting you?** Realtime communication with users. ### 12. Ever so useful **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dong Gun (Eric) A. | Web Developer Internship, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** The technology is just amazing. It is one of the best audio to text software Ive used. I love how simple it is to use, incorporate and get started. My clients love it! **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** It isn't perfect. There are times where Ive caught couple errors in the transcription but I understand that it is just how the technology is developing and it already came a long way. **What problems is Google Cloud Speech-to-Text solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have client meeting calls where we want to record and transcribe. Google cloud speech API allows us to do that into our servers and it is amazing! ### 13. Ultimate Speech to Text application **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashmit S. | Associate Business Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** -Super easy to use. - Most of the time it gets what you're trying to say. -Better than cortana, siri, etc - It's the future of typing. - it has made typing very fast and super easy. -Automatic Back up -Automatic failure support **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** -More customization would be great -Could be little cheaper -Could be able to provide reason for failures -At times recognition is not correct **What problems is Google Cloud Speech-to-Text solving and how is that benefiting you?** -Faster typing - User friendly -Can replace typist clerks from business ### 14. Accurate and interesting **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arthur G. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** Good transcription accuracy even for longer audio files. Fast processing time. Support formats such as WAV, Speex and Opus. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text?** You have to use Googles cloud storage or you will be limited. **What problems is Google Cloud Speech-to-Text solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used the Cloud Speech API to get almost real-time transcriptions of our dealers’ chats with customers; these transcriptions have helped us to increase sales. - [View Google Cloud Speech-to-Text pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-speech-to-text/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=4&page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-14+10%3A10%3A03+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=9f1e8f10-b1c0-4145-855a-a49c0163a963&secure%5Btoken%5D=84d494470b0ee36317eea12326a96564c58bee63333409240b3e828bab5a3514&format=llm_user) ## Google Cloud Speech-to-Text Integrations - [BambooHR](https://www.g2.com/products/bamboohr/reviews) - [bonzo](https://www.g2.com/products/bonzo/reviews) - [Firebase](https://www.g2.com/products/firebase/reviews) - 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Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA) - AI Copilot - Customer Segmentation - Collaboration Tools - Data Import/Export - Generative AI - For eCommerce - Role-Based Permissions - Customizable Branding - Search/Filter - Monitoring - Document Management - API - Data Visualization - Trend Analysis - Machine Learning - Access Controls/Permissions - Alerts/Escalation - Performance Metrics - Real-Time Data - Third-Party Integrations - Mobile App - Multiple Data Sources - For Sales Teams/Organizations - Sentiment Analysis - Activity Dashboard - Chatbot - Workflow Automation **Additional Functionality** - Call Reporting - Automatic Call Distribution - Call Whispering - Callback Scheduling - CRM - Call Tagging - Dashboard - Call Recording - Alerts/Escalation - AI Copilot - Call Transcription - Queue Management - Manual Dialer - Call Tracking - Auto-Dialer - Call Monitoring - Activity Tracking - Multi-Channel Communication - Contact Management - Sentiment Analysis - Progressive Dialer - Voice Recognition - Reporting/Analytics - Monitoring - IVR - Call Logging - Chatbot - Third-Party Integrations - Outbound Call Center - Interaction Tracking - Voice Mail - Call Routing - Automated Responses - API - Call Transfer - AI Summarization - Call Center Management - Inbound Call Center - Surveys & Feedback - Chat/Messaging - Predictive Dialer - Blended Call Center - Caller ID - Generative AI - Performance Management - Computer Telephony Integration - Call Scripting **Additional Functionality** - Third-Party Integrations - To-Do List - @mentions - Single Sign On - File Management - Activity Dashboard - Drag & Drop - Alerts/Notifications - Prioritization - Access Controls/Permissions - Screen Sharing - Content Management - Brainstorming - AI Copilot - File Transfer - Calendar Management - Status Tracking - Real-Time Notifications - Version Control - Task Management - Activity Tracking - Real Time Editing - Communication Management - Chat/Messaging - Tagging - Generative AI - Assignment Management - Task Scheduling - Project Management - Collaboration Tools - Workflow Management - Secure Data Storage - File Sharing - Document Storage - Task Progress Tracking - Discussions/Forums - Commenting/Notes - Reporting & Statistics - Contact Management - Video Conferencing - Progress Tracking - Mobile Access - API - Document Management - Customizable Branding **Additional Functionality** - No-Code - Search/Filter - Data Import/Export - Data Visualization - Activity Dashboard - Workflow Management - Quality Control - Third-Party Integrations - Model Training - Multi-Language - Data Profiling - Visualization - Data Capture and Transfer - Predictive Analytics - Performance Metrics - Image Recognition - Version Control - Neural Network Modeling - Generative AI - Synchronous Learning - Natural Language Processing - Monitoring - Data Transformation - Customizable Reports - Voice Recognition - Performance Management - Compliance Management - Troubleshooting - Content Management - Asynchronous Learning - Real-Time Reporting - API - Artificial Neural Networks - AI Copilot - ML Algorithm Library - Real-Time Data - Collaboration Tools - Self-paced Learning - Data Extraction - Configuration Management - Data Security - Visual Analytics - Activity Tracking - Continuous Delivery - Document Classification - Image Analysis - Progress Tracking - Reporting & Statistics - Real-Time Monitoring **Voice** - Dictation - Accuracy **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization - Generative AI **Deployment & Integration - Voice Recognition** - Installation & setup Ease - Developer API & SDK - Software Integration - Multi-Device Support - Multiple Format Support - Video Support - Third-Party Integrations **Additional Functionality** - Live Chat - Call Transfer - Archiving & Retention - Call Center Management - Call Tagging - Call List Management - Real-Time Analytics - Queue Management - Real-Time Data - API - Real-Time Monitoring - CRM - Performance Metrics - Automatic Call Distribution - Activity Tracking - 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Real-Time Data **Advanced AI & Biometric Features - Voice Recognition** - Voice-Based Authentication - Machine Learning & Adaptive Speech Recognition - Speaker Differentiation - Sentiment & Tone Analysis - Concatenated Speech - Speech-to-Text Analysis **Agentic AI - Voice Recognition** - Natural Language Interaction - Multi-Language **Agentic AI - Transcription** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Decision Making - Third-Party Integrations - File Transfer **Additional Functionality** - Search/Filter - AI Copilot - Call Transfer - Document Review - API - Performance Management - Status Tracking - Audio Capture - Automatic Transcription - Call Reporting - Full Text Search - Text Editing - Document Management - Data Import/Export - Reporting/Analytics - Activity Dashboard - Call Routing - IVR - SSL Security - Call Scripting - Real-Time Data - Video Management - Secure Data Storage - Generative AI - Call Recording - Customizable Macros - Contact Management - CRM - Automatic Formatting - Automatic Call Distribution - Monitoring - Drag & Drop - Call Monitoring - Call Center Management - Voice Mail - Compliance Management **Additional Functionality** - Part of Speech Tagging - Natural Language Processing - Customer Support - Subtitles/Closed Captions - Speech Recognition - Collaboration Tools - Time Stamps - Custom Fonts - Generative AI - Caption Service - Media Upload - Text Overlay - Keyword Search - Full Text Extraction - Multiple File Format Support - Speech-to-Text Analysis - Preview Functionality - AI Copilot - Live Streaming Production - Timecoding - File Sharing - Historical Reporting - Call Recording - Data Synchronization - Data Import/Export - IVR - Automatic Formatting - Multiple Format Support - Annotations - Mobile Access - Automatic Transcription - Projections - AI/Machine Learning - For Manual Transcription - Video Support - Tagging - Sentiment Analysis - Audio/video file upload - Playback Controls - Chat Transcript - Reporting/Analytics - Access Controls/Permissions - 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