custom_content: | ### Recognizing speech The following code sample shows how to recognize speech using an audio file from a Cloud Storage bucket as input. First, add the following imports at the top of your file: ```java import com.google.cloud.speech.v1.SpeechClient; import com.google.cloud.speech.v1.RecognitionAudio; import com.google.cloud.speech.v1.RecognitionConfig; import com.google.cloud.speech.v1.RecognitionConfig.AudioEncoding; import com.google.cloud.speech.v1.RecognizeResponse; ``` Then add the following code to do the speech recognization: ```java try (SpeechClient speechClient = SpeechClient.create()) { RecognitionConfig.AudioEncoding encoding = RecognitionConfig.AudioEncoding.FLAC; int sampleRateHertz = 44100; String languageCode = "en-US"; RecognitionConfig config = RecognitionConfig.newBuilder() .setEncoding(encoding) .setSampleRateHertz(sampleRateHertz) .setLanguageCode(languageCode) .build(); String uri = "gs://bucket_name/file_name.flac"; RecognitionAudio audio = RecognitionAudio.newBuilder() .setUri(uri) .build(); RecognizeResponse response = speechClient.recognize(config, audio); } ``` #### Complete source code In [RecognizeSpeech.java](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/blob/master/google-cloud-examples/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/examples/speech/snippets/RecognizeSpeech.java) we put a quick start example, which shows how you can use Google Speech API to automatically recognize speech based on a local file. For an example audio file, you can use the [audio.raw](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/java-docs-samples/blob/master/speech/cloud-client/resources/audio.raw) file from the samples repository. Note, to play the file on Unix-like system you may use the following command: `play -t raw -r 16k -e signed -b 16 -c 1 audio.raw`