public com.google.protobuf.ByteString getWordBytes() {
      java.lang.Object ref = word_;
      if (ref instanceof String) {
        com.google.protobuf.ByteString b =
            com.google.protobuf.ByteString.copyFromUtf8((java.lang.String) ref);
        word_ = b;
        return b;
      } else {
        return (com.google.protobuf.ByteString) ref;
      }
    }
<pre>
The word corresponding to this set of information.
</pre>

<code>string word = 3;</code>

@return The bytes for word.
java-speech/proto-google-cloud-speech-v1/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/speech/v1/WordInfo.java