Commercial Use of the Speech Recognition API Service

[pulse97]

I would like to know whether it is possible to commercially distribute a product that integrates the Speech Recognition API service into a program. If commercial use is allowed, I would like to understand the conditions and licensing requirements for doing so.

I have searched for documentation regarding the terms of use for this API but could not find any clear information.

Additional Notes:
The API I am referring to is "Google Speech Recognition," which is mentioned on the second line under the "Speech recognition engine/API support" section of this page:
🔗 SpeechRecognition on PyPI

I am not referring to the "Google Cloud Speech API" mentioned on the third line, which is documented here:
🔗 Google Cloud Speech-to-Text

Any guidance on the terms of use or where to find the relevant documentation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[MJane · Accepted solution]

Hi pulse97,

Welcome to the Google Cloud Community!

The Google Speech Recognition API in the SpeechRecognition Python package is essentially an interface to Google's free web-based speech recognition service.The SpeechRecognition library, when using Google’s free API, should be primarily for experimentation and small-scale personal or educational applications.

While Google does not provide detailed documentation about the free web service used in the SpeechRecognition library, you might want to use a more reliable, commercially supported API such as Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, which provides clear terms and commercial licensing.

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