chore: Release library Google.Cloud.Speech.V2 version 1.8.0

### New features

- Adds endpointing sensitivity to streaming recognition features

Librarian-Release-Library: Google.Cloud.Speech.V2
Librarian-Release-Version: 1.8.0
Librarian-Release-ID: release-20260219T081717Z

Author: google-cloud-sdk-librarian-dotnet-robot

apis/Google.Cloud.Speech.V2/Google.Cloud.Speech.V2/Google.Cloud.Speech.V2.csproj

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <Version>1.7.0</Version>
+    <Version>1.8.0</Version>
     <TargetFrameworks>netstandard2.0;net462</TargetFrameworks>
     <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
     <Description>Recommended Google client library to access the Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (v2) which converts audio to text by applying powerful neural network models.</Description>

apis/Google.Cloud.Speech.V2/docs/history.md

@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Version history
 
+## Version 1.8.0, released 2026-02-19
+
+### New features
+
+- Adds endpointing sensitivity to streaming recognition features
+
 ## Version 1.7.0, released 2026-01-08
 
 ### New features

generator-input/apis.json

@@ -5658,7 +5658,7 @@
     },
     {
       "id": "Google.Cloud.Speech.V2",
-      "version": "1.7.0",
+      "version": "1.8.0",
       "type": "grpc",
       "productName": "Cloud Speech-to-Text",
       "productUrl": "https://cloud.google.com/speech",

generator-input/pipeline-state.json

@@ -3153,12 +3153,12 @@
         },
         {
             "id": "Google.Cloud.Speech.V2",
-            "currentVersion": "1.7.0",
+            "currentVersion": "1.8.0",
             "generationAutomationLevel": "AUTOMATION_LEVEL_AUTOMATIC",
             "releaseAutomationLevel": "AUTOMATION_LEVEL_AUTOMATIC",
-            "releaseTimestamp": "2026-01-08T08:33:20.377611741Z",
+            "releaseTimestamp": "2026-02-19T08:30:53.307563393Z",
             "lastGeneratedCommit": "b2f57f3efafac433fc1f50b4aaf128bb117f6a47",
-            "lastReleasedCommit": "1a141530079896691c100e0624705f2e0923f864",
+            "lastReleasedCommit": "b2f57f3efafac433fc1f50b4aaf128bb117f6a47",
             "apiPaths": [
                 "google/cloud/speech/v2"
             ],