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Google Cloud's Speech-to-Text API infers periods, commas and question marks from audio and adds them to the transcript when automatic punctuation is on.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Speech-to-Text automatically infers the presence of periods, commas, and question marks in your audio data and adds them to the transcript.”
Enable automatic punctuation (Speech-to-Text), Google Cloud, 2026, Introduction.
Open the original- What it measures
- Introduction to automatic punctuation in Google Cloud Speech-to-Text.
- What it does not show
- This is the developer API, not the voice typing in Google Docs. The page points to a per-language list of supported features.