Configuring Google Cloud Speech to Text

Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is a service with a free tier that enables you to solve audio challenges. The following guide will help you to configure the extension to use this service.

Get an API key

1. Go to Google Cloud and sign up for free with a Google account, you may need to add a credit card to activate the account
2. Go to New Project and click on CREATE, then select the project after it has been created
3. Go to Speech-to-Text and click on ENABLE API
4. Go to Credentials and click on CREATE CREDENTIALS, then select API key
5. Copy the displayed API key

Configure the extension

1. Open the extension's options
2. Under Speech recognition select Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
3. Paste the API key you have previously copied from Google Cloud into the API key field

The extension is ready to use, and the options page can now be closed.