Google has said its Cloud Speech API is now out of beta and is now generally available to developers.

Google says it has new features and imporved performance since the early beta stages.

Improved transcription accuracy for long-form audio

Faster processing, typically 3x faster than the prior version for batch scenarios

Expanded file format support, now including WAV, Opus and Speex

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