google-cloud-speech 0.32.0 → 1.2.1

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  3. data/AUTHENTICATION.md +169 -0
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  7. data/lib/google/cloud/speech/version.rb +22 -0
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  12. data/lib/google/cloud/speech/v1/cloud_speech_pb.rb +0 -129
  13. data/lib/google/cloud/speech/v1/cloud_speech_services_pb.rb +0 -56
  14. data/lib/google/cloud/speech/v1/credentials.rb +0 -41
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  22. data/lib/google/cloud/speech/v1/speech_client_config.json +0 -41
  23. data/lib/google/cloud/speech/v1/stream.rb +0 -614
  24. data/lib/google/cloud/speech/v1.rb +0 -157
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  27. data/lib/google/cloud/speech/v1p1beta1/credentials.rb +0 -41
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  30. data/lib/google/cloud/speech/v1p1beta1/doc/google/protobuf/any.rb +0 -130
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  35. data/lib/google/cloud/speech/v1p1beta1/speech_client_config.json +0 -41
  36. data/lib/google/cloud/speech/v1p1beta1/stream.rb +0 -614
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+ ## Migrating to google-cloud-speech 1.0
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+
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+ The 1.0 release of the google-cloud-speech client is a significant upgrade
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+ based on a [next-gen code generator](https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-ruby),
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+ and includes substantial interface changes. Existing code written for earlier
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+ versions of this library will likely require updates to use this version.
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+ This document describes the changes that have been made, and what you need to
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+ do to update your usage.
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+
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+ To summarize:
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+
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+ * The library has been broken out into multiple libraries. The new gems
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+ `google-cloud-speech-v1` and `google-cloud-speech-v1p1beta1` contain the
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+ actual client classes for versions V1 and V1p1beta1 of the Speech service,
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+ and the gem `google-cloud-speech` now simply provides a convenience wrapper.
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+ See [Library Structure](#library-structure) for more info.
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+ * The library uses a new configuration mechanism giving you closer control
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+ over endpoint address, network timeouts, and retry. See
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+ [Client Configuration](#client-configuration) for more info. Furthermore,
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+ when creating a client object, you can customize its configuration in a
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+ block rather than passing arguments to the constructor. See
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+ [Creating Clients](#creating-clients) for more info.
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+ * Previously, positional arguments were used to indicate required arguments.
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+ Now, all method arguments are keyword arguments, with documentation that
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+ specifies whether they are required or optional. Additionally, you can pass
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+ a proto request object instead of separate arguments. See
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+ [Passing Arguments](#passing-arguments) for more info.
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+ * Previously, the client included a method supporting bidirectional streaming
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+ recognition requests, both incremental audio and incremental results. The
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+ current client retains this method, but simplifies the interface to match
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+ streaming methods in other Ruby clients. See
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+ [Streaming Interface](#streaming-interface) for more info.
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+ * Previously, clients reported RPC errors by raising instances of
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+ `Google::Gax::GaxError` and its subclasses. Now, RPC exceptions are of type
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+ `Google::Cloud::Error` and its subclasses. See
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+ [Handling Errors](#handling-errors) for more info.
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+ * Some classes have moved into different namespaces. See
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+ [Class Namespaces](#class-namespaces) for more info.
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+
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+ ### Library Structure
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+
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+ Older 0.x releases of the `google-cloud-speech` gem were all-in-one gems
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+ that included potentially multiple clients for multiple versions of the Speech
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+ service. The `Google::Cloud::Speech.new` factory method would
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+ return you an instance of a `Google::Cloud::Speech::V1::SpeechClient`
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+ object for the V1 version of the service, or a
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+ `Google::Cloud::Speech::V1p1beta1::SpeechClient` object for the V1p1beta1
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+ version of the service. All these classes were defined in the same gem.
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+
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+ With the 1.0 release, the `google-cloud-speech` gem still provides factory
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+ methods for obtaining clients. (The method signatures will have changed. See
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+ [Creating Clients](#creating-clients) for details.) However, the actual client
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+ classes have been moved into separate gems, one per service version. The
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+ `Google::Cloud::Speech::V1::Speech::Client` class, along with its
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+ helpers and data types, is now part of the `google-cloud-speech-v1` gem.
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+ Similarly, the `Google::Cloud::Speech::V1p1beta1::Speech::Client`
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+ class is part of the `google-cloud-speech-v1p1beta1` gem.
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+
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+ For normal usage, you can continue to install the `google-cloud-speech` gem
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+ (which will bring in the versioned client gems as dependencies) and continue to
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+ use factory methods to create clients. However, you may alternatively choose to
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+ install only one of the versioned gems. For example, if you know you will only
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+ use `V1` of the service, you can install `google-cloud-speech-v1` by
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+ itself, and construct instances of the
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+ `Google::Cloud::Speech::V1::Speech::Client` client class directly.
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+
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+ ### Client Configuration
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+
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+ In older releases, if you wanted to customize performance parameters or
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+ low-level behavior of the client (such as credentials, timeouts, or
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+ instrumentation), you would pass a variety of keyword arguments to the client
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+ constructor. It was also extremely difficult to customize the default settings.
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+
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+ With the 1.0 release, a configuration interface provides control over these
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+ parameters, including defaults for all instances of a client, and settings for
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+ each specific client instance. For example, to set default credentials and
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+ timeout for all Speech V1 clients:
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+
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+ ```
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+ Google::Cloud::Speech::V1::Speech::Client.configure do |config|
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+ config.credentials = "/path/to/credentials.json"
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+ config.timeout = 10.0
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+ end
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+ ```
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+
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+ Individual RPCs can also be configured independently. For example, to set the
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+ timeout for the `recognize` call:
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+
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+ ```
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+ Google::Cloud::Speech::V1::Speech::Client.configure do |config|
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+ config.rpcs.recognize.timeout = 20.0
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+ end
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+ ```
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+ Defaults for certain configurations can be set for all Speech versions and
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+ services globally:
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+
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+ ```
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+ Google::Cloud::Speech.configure do |config|
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+ config.credentials = "/path/to/credentials.json"
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+ config.timeout = 10.0
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+ end
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+ ```
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+
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+ Finally, you can override the configuration for each client instance. See the
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+ next section on [Creating Clients](#creating-clients) for details.
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+
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+ ### Creating Clients
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+
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+ In older releases, to create a client object, you would use the
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+ `Google::Cloud::Speech.new` class method. Keyword arguments were available to
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+ select a service version and to configure parameters such as credentials and
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+ timeouts.
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+
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+ With the 1.0 release, use the `Google::Cloud::Speech.speech` class
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+ method to create a client object. You may select a service version using the
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+ `:version` keyword argument. However, other configuration parameters should be
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+ set in a configuration block when you create the client.
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+
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+ Old:
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+ ```
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+ client = Google::Cloud::Speech.new credentials: "/path/to/credentials.json"
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+ ```
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+
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+ New:
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+ ```
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+ client = Google::Cloud::Speech.speech do |config|
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+ config.credentials = "/path/to/credentials.json"
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+ end
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+ ```
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+
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+ The configuration block is optional. If you do not provide it, or you do not
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+ set some configuration parameters, then the default configuration is used. See
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+ [Client Configuration](#client-configuration).
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+
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+ ### Passing Arguments
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+
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+ In older releases, required arguments would be passed as positional method
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+ arguments, while most optional arguments would be passed as keyword arguments.
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+ With the 1.0 release, all RPC arguments are passed as keyword arguments,
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+ regardless of whether they are required or optional. For example:
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+
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+ Old:
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+ ```
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+ client = Google::Cloud::Speech.new
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+
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+ config = {
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+ language_code: "en-US",
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+ sample_rate_hertz: 44_100,
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+ encoding: :FLAC
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+ }
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+ audio = {
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+ uri: "gs://cloud-samples-data/speech/brooklyn_bridge.flac"
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+ }
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+
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+ # Config and audio are positional arguments
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+ response = client.recognize config, audio
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+ ```
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+
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+ New:
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+ ```
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+ client = Google::Cloud::Speech.speech
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+
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+ config = {
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+ language_code: "en-US",
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+ sample_rate_hertz: 44_100,
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+ encoding: :FLAC
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+ }
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+ audio = {
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+ uri: "gs://cloud-samples-data/speech/brooklyn_bridge.flac"
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+ }
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+
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+ # Config and audio are keyword arguments
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+ response = client.recognize config: config, audio: audio
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+ ```
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+
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+ In the 1.0 release, it is also possible to pass a request object, either
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+ as a hash or as a protocol buffer.
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+ New:
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+ ```
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+ client = Google::Cloud::Speech.speech
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+ request_object = Google::Cloud::Speech::V1::RecognizeRequest.new(
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+ config: {
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+ language_code: "en-US",
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+ sample_rate_hertz: 44_100,
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+ encoding: :FLAC
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+ },
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+ audio: {
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+ uri: "gs://cloud-samples-data/speech/brooklyn_bridge.flac"
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+ }
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+ )
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+
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+ # Pass a request object as a positional argument:
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+ response = client.recognize request_object
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+ ```
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+ Finally, in older releases, to provide call options, you would pass a
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+ `Google::Gax::CallOptions` object with the `:options` keyword argument. In the
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+ 1.0 release, pass call options using a _second set_ of keyword arguments.
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+
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+ Old:
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+ ```
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+ client = Google::Cloud::Speech.new
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+
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+ config = {
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+ language_code: "en-US",
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+ sample_rate_hertz: 44_100,
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+ encoding: :FLAC
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+ }
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+ audio = {
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+ uri: "gs://cloud-samples-data/speech/brooklyn_bridge.flac"
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+ }
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+ options = Google::Gax::CallOptions.new timeout: 10.0
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+ response = client.recognize config, audio, options: options
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+ ```
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+
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+ New:
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+ ```
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+ client = Google::Cloud::Speech.speech
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+
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+ config = {
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+ language_code: "en-US",
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+ sample_rate_hertz: 44_100,
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+ encoding: :FLAC
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+ }
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+ audio = {
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+ uri: "gs://cloud-samples-data/speech/brooklyn_bridge.flac"
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+ }
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+
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+ # Use a hash to wrap the normal call arguments (or pass a request object), and
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+ # then add further keyword arguments for the call options.
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+ response = client.batch_annotate_images(
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+ { config: config, audio: audio },
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+ timeout: 10.0)
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### Streaming Interface
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+
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+ The client library includes one special streaming method `streaming_recognize`.
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+ In the older client, this method employed a streaming interface in which you
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+ would register callbacks for different incremental result events. In version
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+ 1.0, we have standardized the streaming interfaces across the various Ruby
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+ client libraries. The `streaming_recognize` call returns a lazy enumerable that
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+ you can query for incremental results.
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+ Old:
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+ ```
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+ client = Google::Cloud::Speech.new
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+ config = {
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+ language_code: "en-US",
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+ sample_rate_hertz: 44_100,
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+ }
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+ results = stream.results
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+ ```
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+ New:
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+ ```
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+ config = {
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+ }
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+ puts "received: #{response}"
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+ end
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+ ```
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+ ### Handling Errors
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+ The client reports standard
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+ {file:https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/statuscodes.md gRPC error codes}
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+ by raising exceptions. In older releases, these exceptions were located in the
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+ exception class, defined in the `google-gax` gem. However, these classes were
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+ thrown by other client libraries such as `google-cloud-storage`.
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+ The 1.0 client library now uses the `Google::Cloud::Error` exception hierarchy,
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+ for consistency across all the Google Cloud client libraries. In general, these
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+ exceptions have the same name as their counterparts from older releases, but
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+ are located in the `Google::Cloud` namespace rather than the `Google::Gax`
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+ namespace.
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+ Old:
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+ ```
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+
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+ config = {
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+ language_code: "en-US",
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+ sample_rate_hertz: 44_100,
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+ encoding: :FLAC
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+ }
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+ uri: "gs://cloud-samples-data/speech/brooklyn_bridge.flac"
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+ }
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+
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+ begin
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+ response = client.recognize config, audio
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+ rescue Google::Gax::Error => e
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+ # Handle exceptions that subclass Google::Gax::Error
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+ end
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+ ```
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+ New:
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+ ```
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+ config = {
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+ language_code: "en-US",
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+ sample_rate_hertz: 44_100,
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+ }
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+ uri: "gs://cloud-samples-data/speech/brooklyn_bridge.flac"
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+ }
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+ rescue Google::Cloud::Error => e
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+ # Handle exceptions that subclass Google::Cloud::Error
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+ end
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+ ```
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+ ### Class Namespaces
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+ Note that most users will use the factory methods such as
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+ See [Client Configuration](#client-configuration).
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- # Ruby Client for Cloud Speech API ([Alpha](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby#versioning))
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+ # Ruby Client for the Cloud Speech-to-Text API
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- ## Quick Start
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- In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following
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+ Google Speech-to-Text enables developers to convert audio to text by applying powerful neural network models in an easy-to-use API. The API recognizes more than 120 languages and variants to support your global user base. You can enable voice command-and-control, transcribe audio from call centers, and more. It can process real-time streaming or prerecorded audio, using Google's machine learning technology.
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- 1. [Select or create a Cloud Platform project.](https://console.cloud.google.com/project)
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+ Actual client classes for the various versions of this API are defined in
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+ The gem `google-cloud-speech` is the main client library that brings the
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+ View the [Client Library Documentation](https://googleapis.dev/ruby/google-cloud-speech/latest)
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+ for this library, google-cloud-speech, to see the convenience methods for
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+ [google-cloud-speech-v1](https://googleapis.dev/ruby/google-cloud-speech-v1/latest),
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- ```rb
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+ 1. [Select or create a Cloud Platform project.](https://console.cloud.google.com/project)
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- [Product Documentation]: https://cloud.google.com/speech
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+ ## Migrating from 0.x versions
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+
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+ The 1.0 release of the google-cloud-speech client is a significant upgrade
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+ based on a [next-gen code generator](https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-ruby),
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+ and includes substantial interface changes. Existing code written for earlier
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+ versions of this library will likely require updates to use this version.
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+ See the {file:MIGRATING.md MIGRATING.md} document for more information.
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  ## Enabling Logging
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- The logger that you set may be a Ruby stdlib [`Logger`](https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.5.0/libdoc/logger/rdoc/Logger.html) as shown below,
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- that will write logs to [Stackdriver Logging](https://cloud.google.com/logging/). See [grpc/logconfig.rb](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/src/ruby/lib/grpc/logconfig.rb)
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+ The logger that you set may be a Ruby stdlib [`Logger`](https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/logger/rdoc/Logger.html) as shown below,
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+ or a [`Google::Cloud::Logging::Logger`](https://googleapis.dev/ruby/google-cloud-logging/latest)
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+ that will write logs to [Cloud Logging](https://cloud.google.com/logging/). See [grpc/logconfig.rb](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/src/ruby/lib/grpc/logconfig.rb)
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+ ## Which client should I use?
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+ _In most cases, you should install the main client._
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+ ### What's the difference between the main client and a versioned client?
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+ A _versioned client_ provides a basic set of data types and client classes for
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+ We recommend that most users install the main client gem for a service. You can
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+ The main client is recommended because it will embody the best practices for
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+ tighter integration into frameworks and third-party libraries. In addition, the
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+ You can use a versioned client if you are content with a possibly lower-level
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+ ### What about the google-apis-<name> clients?
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+ older code generation technology. They talk to a REST/JSON backend (whereas
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+ most modern clients talk to a [gRPC](https://grpc.io/) backend) and they may
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+ The `google-apis-` clients have wide coverage across Google services, so you
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+ # Copyright 2019 Google LLC
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+ # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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+ # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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+ # You may obtain a copy of the License at
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+ # https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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+ #
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+ # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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+ # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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+ # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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+ # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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+ # limitations under the License.
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+ module Speech
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+ end
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