diff --git a/speech/snippets/create_recognizer.py b/speech/snippets/create_recognizer.py
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+# Copyright 2022 Google Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+# [START speech_create_recognizer]
+from google.cloud.speech_v2 import SpeechClient
+from google.cloud.speech_v2.types import cloud_speech
+
+
+def create_recognizer(project_id, recognizer_id):
+    # Instantiates a client
+    client = SpeechClient()
+
+    request = cloud_speech.CreateRecognizerRequest(
+        parent=f"projects/{project_id}/locations/global",
+        recognizer_id=recognizer_id,
+        recognizer=cloud_speech.Recognizer(
+            language_codes=["en-US"], model="latest_long"
+        ),
+    )
+
+    operation = client.create_recognizer(request=request)
+    recognizer = operation.result()
+
+    print("Created Recognizer:", recognizer.name)
+    return recognizer
+
+
+# [END speech_create_recognizer]
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    create_recognizer()
diff --git a/speech/snippets/create_recognizer_test.py b/speech/snippets/create_recognizer_test.py
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+# Copyright 2022, Google, Inc.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import os
+from uuid import uuid4
+
+from google.cloud.speech_v2 import SpeechClient
+from google.cloud.speech_v2.types import cloud_speech
+
+import create_recognizer
+
+
+def delete_recognizer(name):
+    client = SpeechClient()
+    request = cloud_speech.DeleteRecognizerRequest(name=name)
+    client.delete_recognizer(request=request)
+
+
+def test_create_recognizer(capsys):
+    project_id = os.getenv("GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT")
+
+    recognizer = create_recognizer.create_recognizer(
+        project_id, "recognizer-" + str(uuid4())
+    )
+    delete_recognizer(recognizer.name)