Wondering about the pricing using this plugin on Android?

[hnguyen48206]

Hi,

My name is Hoang Nguyen, I've been using this plugin to add the speech-to-text feature to my application for a while and it's still working great for demos. However, now my app will be a commercial app and it means I need to take into account pricing things of included 3rd party services. From the description, the plugin relied on the speech api from google and as far as I know, it's not free as stated here: https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/

The problem is there's nothing like adding a key (as Map API) when using this plugin so I do not really know in the case that Google tries to charge me when exceeding their free quota, how would they do that?

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

[dex252]

This is terrible. I worked with this plugin for only 2 days, and everything was fine. But today he stopped working, complaining about the lack of an Internet connection, despite the fact that there is Internet. Later it became a discovery for me that the plugin conflicts with @ ionic-native / media / ngx, which is necessary for me in order to record audio. It is sad that the author does not support this, but there is a link to it in the ionic documentation.

[nitsel88]

i exactly have this query, how does the plugin work based on android API (speech recognition) which depends on a gcloud setup and key. i could not understand how all this works. Can someone elaborate.
@pbakondy can you help ?

[pravinkumarputta]

Android speech-to-text API uses the inbuilt feature of the phone. I've been using this feature for the past 2 years. I think there is no need of any API key.

[Taxi4you]

But in GCP they charge money for this service, so why in this plugin its free?
How about iOS?

[pstadler1990]

But in GCP they charge money for this service, so why in this plugin its free?
How about iOS?

It's a different product. The GCP is a different service than the one this plugin is using.