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 C++ client library, with version 2.14.0 being the current version shown on the page, and links to previous versions available.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe documentation outlines classes such as \u003ccode\u003eSpeechClient\u003c/code\u003e and \u003ccode\u003eSpeechConnection\u003c/code\u003e, which are crucial for speech transcription and resource management.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe webpage details various retry policies like \u003ccode\u003eSpeechLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy\u003c/code\u003e and \u003ccode\u003eSpeechLimitedTimeRetryPolicy\u003c/code\u003e, as well as options for configuring these policies.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe documentation includes a \u003ccode\u003eMakeSpeechConnection\u003c/code\u003e function that creates a \u003ccode\u003eSpeechConnection\u003c/code\u003e object, using specified options to customize its behaviour.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe webpage defines \u003ccode\u003eSpeechPolicyOptionList\u003c/code\u003e as an alias, allowing a configuration to be set for options related to retries, backoff policies, polling, and idempotency.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Namespace google::cloud::speech_v2 (2.14.0)\n\nVersion 2.14.0keyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [2.42.0-rc (latest)](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.41.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.41.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.40.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.40.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.39.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.39.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.38.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.38.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.37.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.37.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.36.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.36.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.35.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.35.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.34.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.34.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.33.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.33.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.32.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.32.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.31.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.31.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.30.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.30.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.29.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.29.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.28.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.28.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.27.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.27.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.26.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.26.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.25.1](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.25.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.24.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.24.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.23.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.23.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.22.1](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.22.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.21.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.21.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.20.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.20.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.19.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.19.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.18.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.18.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.17.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.17.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.16.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.16.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.15.1](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.15.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.14.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.13.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.13.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.12.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.12.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\n- [2.11.0](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.11.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2) \n\nClasses\n-------\n\n### [SpeechClient](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_1_1SpeechClient)\n\nEnables speech transcription and resource management.\n\n### [SpeechConnection](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_1_1SpeechConnection)\n\nThe [`SpeechConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_1_1SpeechConnection) object for [`SpeechClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_1_1SpeechClient).\n\n### [SpeechConnectionIdempotencyPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_1_1SpeechConnectionIdempotencyPolicy)\n\n### [SpeechLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_1_1SpeechLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`SpeechConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_1_1SpeechConnection) based on counting errors.\n\n### [SpeechLimitedTimeRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_1_1SpeechLimitedTimeRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`SpeechConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_1_1SpeechConnection) based on elapsed time.\n\n### [SpeechRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_1_1SpeechRetryPolicy)\n\nThe retry policy for [`SpeechConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_1_1SpeechConnection).\n\nStructs\n-------\n\n### [SpeechBackoffPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_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/2.14.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_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/2.14.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_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/2.14.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_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/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_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/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_1_1SpeechClient).\n\nThe optional `options` argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned [`SpeechConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2_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_v2::SpeechPolicyOptionList`](/cpp/docs/reference/speech/2.14.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1speech__v2)\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### SpeechPolicyOptionList\n\n**Alias Of** : `OptionList\u003c SpeechRetryPolicyOption, SpeechBackoffPolicyOption, SpeechPollingPolicyOption, SpeechConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption \u003e` \nThe options applicable to Speech."]]
