@java.lang.Override
  public com.google.protobuf.Timestamp getStartTime() {
    return startTime_ == null ? com.google.protobuf.Timestamp.getDefaultInstance() : startTime_;
  }
<pre>
Time when the request was received.
</pre>

<code>.google.protobuf.Timestamp start_time = 2;</code>

@return The startTime.
java-speech/proto-google-cloud-speech-v1/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/speech/v1/LongRunningRecognizeMetadata.java