The recently announced voice stuff in 2023.5 are pretty neat, and of course both the local (whisper) and cloud speech-to-text are awesome.
But the more choices we have the better, so I made an integration that allows to use Google Cloud Speech-to-Text in HA. It’s pretty fast, supports a ton of languages and can be included in an assist pipeline like any other STT source.
For those insterested:
This is a MUST HAVE!!! Thank you very much 
This is very helpful indeed 
especially if you are running home assistant on a less powerful machine and can not have models running locally this will just make things very fast 
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I saw that it might take 7 seconds for Speech to text to run using faster-whisper on a Raspberry Pi 4.
Could it be possible to run a model like Whisper on your own external server? If possible how?
Yes, there’s a docker image you can run in an external server. Check this thread:
I was able to setup an app to send audio over the websockets to Home-Assistant. Using Porcupine to detect a wake word and send the audio to a voice assistant pipeline.
This can work on a raspberry pi with a USB mic.
I’ve activated the integration. It doesn’t appear as option for STT (it is there for TTS though). What am I missing? 
(screenshot: https://take.ms/BoUBz )
Check that it is configured properly, the googlecloud.json file is valid (with API key etc) and HA is restarted.
Any stt related messages in the log?
Hello,
I have just integrated Google Speetch-to-text and I have the following error in the log at startup.
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.config_validation] The stt integration does not support any configuration parameters, got [{'platform': 'google_cloud_stt', 'key_file': 'googlecloud.json', 'model': 'command_and_search'}]. Please remove the configuration parameters from your configuration.
I saw this happened to several people but I couldn't find a solution.
Can you help me ?
Hi, this is a known HA bug but it does not affect the integration, it should still work (if properly configured). I added a short FAQ in the README to let users know.
Thanks for your return.
I got stuck on this error, but I just tried and it works.
You should remember to restart HA after configuring the voice assistant.
Thanks for your addon, it’s great!
[EDIT / I’ve rewritten my question]
I just installed and configured your plugin for Assist. It works pefectly with M5Stack devices, including/especially with my native language (Polish). But how to use it with google speakers? Within M5Stack settings I can assign “assist pipline” but how to assign this input chanel for Google spaekers?
I would appreciate any help.
edit: my mistake sorry
Hello to all, and thanks Chatziko for this awesome work!
I have the same issue with this error message:
Enregistreur: custom_components.google_cloud_stt.stt
Source: custom_components/google_cloud_stt/stt.py:194
intégration: google_cloud_stt (documentation)
S’est produit pour la première fois: 09:38:02 (1 occurrences)
Dernier enregistrement: 09:38:02
File /config/stt-home-assistant-427316-c5ebe86cb508.json doesn’t exist
I have tried to use the default googlecloud.json statement ( as instructed) and the full name of the file I downloaded in the configuration.yaml
What an I missing?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Hello to all,
it is also not working for me. I tried everything.
Is there no way to have a non english speech to text voicepipline integration on the market? There must be something that is working.
Tanks in advance
Hi to all!
I managed to set it up however when I try to use the assistant the only answer I got is “Unexpected error during speech-to-texr”
I guess it’s an API issue?
Do you have an idea to solve this?
thanks in advance!
I found out here that essentially, the official Home Assistant Google Cloud integration now supports the STT API.
And it seems to work wonderfully, even slightly faster for me.
So, simply uninstall this one and get your official integration up and running!