How to use Google's Speech-to-Text API to transcribe audio in Python

The Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API is a service that enables developers to convert audio to text using Deep Learning models exposed through an API. It supports various audio formats and languages, offers streaming Speech-to-Text, speaker diarization, automatic punctuation and casing, word-level confidence scores, and has a usage-based pricing model. However, it may have accuracy issues, lacks feature completeness compared to some other providers, and requires strong support from the developer's side. To use Google's Speech-to-Text API in Python, you need to set up a Google Cloud project with Speech-to-Text enabled, create a service account and generate a JSON key file, set the credentials environment variable, and initialize the Speech-to-Text client in your Python code.