Fact · Speech recognition
Google's Speech-to-Text authentication page says the REST interface can be called with gcloud CLI credentials or Application Default Credentials.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“You can authenticate to the Cloud STT API by using your gcloud CLI credentials or by using Application Default Credentials”
Authenticate to Cloud STT, Google Cloud, n.d., REST section.
Open the original- What it measures
- The page covers the two routes Google documents for Speech-to-Text: client libraries, which use Application Default Credentials, and REST requests, which use the gcloud CLI or Application Default Credentials.
- What it does not show
- The page describes the documented methods. It does not say that an API key cannot be used, and we did not test an API key against a live project.