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Google Provider Update - December 2025

· 3 min read
Jeffrey Aven
Technologist and Cloud Consultant

We've released a major update to the StackQL Google provider with a new service, enhanced AI/ML capabilities, and improvements across 177 service files.

New Service: Speech-to-Text v2​

The speechv2 service brings Cloud Speech-to-Text API v2 to StackQL with 6 resources:

ResourceDescription
recognizersManage speech recognition configurations with create, list, get, patch, delete, undelete, recognize, and batch_recognize methods
custom_classesCreate custom vocabulary classes for improved recognition accuracy
phrase_setsDefine phrase hints to boost recognition of specific terms
configManage location-level Speech-to-Text configuration
locationsQuery available service locations
operationsTrack long-running operations

Key features include support for multiple audio encodings (WAV, FLAC, MP3, OGG, WebM, MP4/AAC), translation capabilities, denoiser config, and KMS encryption support.

Vertex AI / AI Platform​

The largest update in this release with 87,000+ line changes introduces powerful new RAG and evaluation capabilities:

  • RAG Resources: rag_corpora, rag_files, rag_engine_config for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Conversational AI: New chat resource
  • Model Evaluation: evaluation_sets and evaluation_items for systematic model assessment
  • New Resources: science, invoke, and openapi resources
  • Performance: Enhanced cache_config for caching configurations

Discovery Engine​

Major enhancements (50,000+ line changes) for search and conversational AI:

  • New assistants resource
  • New sitemaps resource for site search
  • New custom_models resource
  • Enhanced sessions and answers for conversational search
  • New authorized_views and authorized_view_sets for access control

Contact Center AI Insights​

Quality assurance and analytics improvements (20,000+ line changes):

  • New qa_questions and qa_question_tags for quality assurance workflows
  • New analysis_rules resource
  • New segments resource
  • New authorized_views with IAM policy support
  • New datasets and views resources

BigQuery​

Enhanced governance and access control (18,000+ line changes):

  • New routines_iam_policies for stored procedure/function IAM
  • Enhanced row_access_policies

Healthcare API​

Expanded metrics and data mapping (15,000+ line changes):

  • New data_mapper_workspaces_iam_policies
  • Enhanced metrics: hl7_v2_store_metrics, dicom_store_metrics, series_metrics, study_metrics
  • New instances_storage_info resource

Cloud Spanner​

Backup and security enhancements (14,000+ line changes):

  • New backup_schedules with IAM support
  • New databases_split_points resource
  • New database_roles with IAM policies

Cloud SQL Admin​

New integration and management features (12,000+ line changes):

  • New instances_entra_id_certificate for Microsoft Entra ID integration
  • New instances_disk_shrink_config
  • New instances_latest_recovery_time

GKE On-Prem​

Enhanced IAM across VMware and Bare Metal clusters (9,000+ line changes):

  • Enhanced VMware cluster resources with IAM policies
  • Enhanced Bare Metal cluster resources with IAM policies
  • New vmware_node_pools and bare_metal_node_pools with IAM

Developer Connect​

Git integration improvements (3,500+ line changes):

  • New git_repository_links_git_refs resource
  • New users_self and users_access_token resources
  • New token resources: read_token, read_write_token

Text-to-Speech​

Enhanced voices and text resources with new capabilities.

Get Started​

Update to the latest Google provider:

stackql registry pull google

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