Fact · Speech recognition
5minutes
Google Cloud's quota table gives a streaming recognition request an audio length of about 5 minutes.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Streaming Requests ~5 Minutes * Audio longer than ~1 minute must use the uri field to reference an audio file in Cloud Storage.”
Quotas and limits (Speech-to-Text, Google Cloud), Google Cloud, Google Cloud, n.d., Audio length limits table.
Open the original- What it measures
- The table lists limits for synchronous requests, asynchronous requests and streaming requests.
- What it does not show
- Google marks the limits as subject to change. The page says each streaming session counts as one request.