A factory function to construct an object of typeSpeechConnection.
The returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor ofSpeechClient.
The optionaloptionsargument may be used to configure aspects of the returnedSpeechConnection. Expected options are any of the types in the following option lists:
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-09-04 UTC."],[[["\u003cp\u003eThis webpage provides documentation for the Google Cloud Speech API C++ client library, with the latest release candidate being version 2.37.0-rc and the current documented version being 2.13.0.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe library includes classes like \u003ccode\u003eSpeechClient\u003c/code\u003e and \u003ccode\u003eSpeechConnection\u003c/code\u003e for interacting with the Google Cloud Speech API, alongside structs for configuring policies, such as \u003ccode\u003eSpeechBackoffPolicyOption\u003c/code\u003e and \u003ccode\u003eSpeechRetryPolicyOption\u003c/code\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eIt offers a factory function, \u003ccode\u003eMakeSpeechConnection(Options)\u003c/code\u003e, for creating \u003ccode\u003eSpeechConnection\u003c/code\u003e objects, which can be customized using various option lists like \u003ccode\u003eCommonOptionList\u003c/code\u003e, \u003ccode\u003eGrpcOptionList\u003c/code\u003e, and \u003ccode\u003eSpeechPolicyOptionList\u003c/code\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eType aliases such as \u003ccode\u003eSpeechRetryPolicy\u003c/code\u003e, \u003ccode\u003eSpeechLimitedTimeRetryPolicy\u003c/code\u003e, and \u003ccode\u003eSpeechPolicyOptionList\u003c/code\u003e are defined to simplify the use of retry and policy-related features within the library.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Namespace google::cloud::speech_v1 (2.13.0)\n\nVersion 2.13.0keyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [2.42.0-rc (latest)](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.41.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.41.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.40.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.40.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.39.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.39.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.38.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.38.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.37.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.37.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.36.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.36.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.35.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.35.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.34.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.34.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.33.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.33.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.32.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.32.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.31.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.31.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.30.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.30.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.29.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.29.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.28.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.28.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.27.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.27.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.26.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.26.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.25.1](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.25.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.24.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.24.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.23.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.23.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.22.1](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.22.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.21.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.21.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.20.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.20.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.19.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.19.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.18.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.18.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.17.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.17.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.16.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.16.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.15.1](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.15.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.14.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.13.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.13.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.12.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.12.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n- [2.11.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.11.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1) \n\nClasses\n-------\n\n### [SpeechClient](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.13.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1_1_1SpeechClient)\n\nService that implements Google Cloud Speech API.\n\n### [SpeechConnection](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.13.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1_1_1SpeechConnection)\n\nThe [`SpeechConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.13.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1_1_1SpeechConnection) object for [`SpeechClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.13.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1_1_1SpeechClient).\n\n### [SpeechConnectionIdempotencyPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.13.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1_1_1SpeechConnectionIdempotencyPolicy)\n\nStructs\n-------\n\n### [SpeechBackoffPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.13.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1_1_1SpeechBackoffPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure the backoff policy.\n\n### [SpeechConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.13.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1_1_1SpeechConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure which operations are retried.\n\n### [SpeechPollingPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.13.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1_1_1SpeechPollingPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure the long-running operations polling policy.\n\n### [SpeechRetryPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.13.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1_1_1SpeechRetryPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure the retry policy.\n\nFunctions\n---------\n\n### MakeSpeechConnection(Options)\n\nA factory function to construct an object of type [`SpeechConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.13.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1_1_1SpeechConnection). \nThe returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor of [SpeechClient](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.13.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1_1_1SpeechClient).\n\nThe optional `options` argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned [`SpeechConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.13.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1_1_1SpeechConnection). Expected options are any of the types in the following option lists:\n\n- [`google::cloud::CommonOptionList`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud.html)\n- [`google::cloud::GrpcOptionList`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud.html)\n- [`google::cloud::UnifiedCredentialsOptionList`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud.html)\n- [`google::cloud::speech_v1::SpeechPolicyOptionList`](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.13.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v1)\n\n| **Note:** Unexpected options will be ignored. To log unexpected options instead, set `GOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_CLOG=yes` in the environment.\n\n### MakeDefaultSpeechConnectionIdempotencyPolicy()\n\nType Aliases\n------------\n\n### SpeechRetryPolicy\n\n**Alias Of** : `::google::cloud::internal::TraitBasedRetryPolicy\u003c speech_v1_internal::SpeechRetryTraits \u003e` \n\n### SpeechLimitedTimeRetryPolicy\n\n**Alias Of** : `::google::cloud::internal::LimitedTimeRetryPolicy\u003c speech_v1_internal::SpeechRetryTraits \u003e` \n\n### SpeechLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy\n\n**Alias Of** : `::google::cloud::internal::LimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy\u003c speech_v1_internal::SpeechRetryTraits \u003e` \n\n### SpeechPolicyOptionList\n\n**Alias Of** : `OptionList\u003c SpeechRetryPolicyOption, SpeechBackoffPolicyOption, SpeechPollingPolicyOption, SpeechConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption \u003e` \nThe options applicable to Speech."]]
