This document contains current API restrictions and usage limits on use of Cloud Speech-to-Text. This page will be updated to reflect any changes to these restrictions and usage limits. We reserve the right to change these limits.
You can edit your quotas up to their maximum values by using the Google Cloud Platform Dashboard. To request an increase above the maximum for a quota, select the quota to edit, and then select apply for higher quota, and then fill out and submit the Cloud Speech API Quota Request form.
Content Limits
Content to Cloud Speech-to-Text is provided as audio data, either directly within
the content field of the request or referenced within a Google Cloud Storage
URI in the uri field of the request.
The API contains the following limits on the size of this content (and are subject to change):
| Content Limit | Audio Length |
|---|---|
| Synchronous Requests | ~1 Minute |
| Asynchronous Requests | ~180 Minutes* |
| Streaming Requests | ~1 Minutes |
* Audio longer than ~1 minute must use the uri field to reference an audio file in Google Cloud Storage.
For StreamingRecognize requests, audio must be sent at a rate that
approximates real time.
Attempting to process content in excess of these content limits will produce an error.
Within any request, you may also supply a SpeechContext, containing a list of phrases specific to the request. (A single word counts as a phrase in this context.) The following limits apply to such a context:
| SpeechContext Limit | Value |
|---|---|
| Phrases per request | 500 |
| Total characters per request | 10,000 |
| Characters per phrase | 100 |
Request Limits
The current API usage limits for Cloud Speech-to-Text are as follows (and are subject to change):
| Type of Limit | Usage Limit |
|---|---|
| Requests per 100 seconds* | 500 |
| Processing per 100 seconds | 10,800 seconds of audio |
| Processing per day | 480 hours of audio |
* Each StreamingRecognize session is considered a single request even though
it includes multiple frames of StreamingRecognizeRequest audio within the
stream.
Requests and/or attempts at audio processing in excess of these limits will produce an error.
These limits apply to each Cloud Speech-to-Text developer project, and are shared across all applications and IP addresses using a given a developer project.
