Tutorial for using Google TTS API on Node.js project
1 min readJun 20, 2020
Create a Google Cloud Project.
refer ‘Creating a service account’ section on this official guide
https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started
But, you don’t need the other part.
If you have done to make a new project and downloaded the credential file, store as secure.
I had located the file to here.
/keys/Speech-...
Install Libraries what you need
We need these modules
@google-cloud/text-to-speech
dotenv
lodash
So, execute this
npm i @google-cloud/text-to-speech dotenv lodash
Set the .env file
write a credential location into the .env file.
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=“[your location]”
Write and try the main code
original reference: https://www.woolha.com/tutorials/node-js-google-cloud-text-to-speech-api-examples
So, you could get a listenable mp3 file