[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],[],[],[],null,["# How-to guides\n\nPerforming speech recognition\n\n- [### Transcribing short audio files\n Perform synchronous speech recognition on local and remote audio files.](/speech-to-text/docs/sync-recognize)\n- [### Transcribing long audio files\n Perform asynchronous speech recognition on remote audio files.](/speech-to-text/docs/async-recognize)\n- [### Transcribing audio from streaming input\n Perform streaming speech recognition on local audio files and other audio\ninput streams.](/speech-to-text/docs/transcribe-streaming-audio) \nConfiguring recognition requests\n\n- [### Enabling word-level confidence\n Specify that Cloud Speech-to-Text indicate a value of accuracy,\n or confidence level, for individual words in a transcription.](/speech-to-text/docs/word-confidence)\n- [### Separating different speakers\n Get labels for different speakers in audio data transcribed by\n Cloud Speech-to-Text.](/speech-to-text/docs/multiple-voices)\n- [### Detecting language spoken automatically\n Provide multiple language codes for audio transcription requests\n sent to Cloud Speech-to-Text.](/speech-to-text/docs/enable-language-recognition-speech-to-text)\n- [### Transcribing audio with multiple channels\n Transcribe audio files that include more than one channel.](/speech-to-text/docs/multi-channel)\n- [### Selecting a transcription model\n Select a specialized machine learning model for audio transcription.](/speech-to-text/docs/transcription-model)\n- [### Enabling data logging\n Enable data logging on your Google Cloud project to receive\n discounted pricing.](/speech-to-text/docs/enable-data-logging)\n- [### Using enhanced models\n Use enhanced speech recognition models.](/speech-to-text/docs/enhanced-models)\n- [### Getting punctuation\n Include punctuation in transcription results from\n Speech-to-Text.](/speech-to-text/docs/automatic-punctuation)\n- [### Getting word timestamps\n Perform speech recognition on a remote file and include time offset\n(timestamp) values for recognized words.](/speech-to-text/docs/async-time-offsets) \n\n- [### Base64 encoding\n Learn how to base64 encode audio.](/speech-to-text/docs/base64-encoding)"]]