loquacious

Loquacious

lo·qua·cious /lōˈkwāSHəs/ talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling

Loquacious is a small cli program (written in Go) that enables dead-simple text-to-speech and speech-to-text directly from the command line. Uses Google's Cloud Text-to-Speech and Cloud Speech-to-Text APIs.

Setup Credentials

• Setup a new GCP project (you may need to enable billing)
• Add a Service account for the Speech API to your project
• Download your Service account key as JSON
• Add the path to your account key as an environment variable named "GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS"
  • export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=$HOME/gcp_service_key.json
  • (optionally, you can preface every use of loquacious with a one-time variable assignment)

Text-to-Speech

To generate speech from a SSML file, provide it as a command line argument:

$ ./loquacious ./sample/shakespeare.ssml

If you didn't export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS, run:

$ GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=$HOME/gcp_service_key.json ./loquacious ./sample/shakespeare.ssml

Speech-to-Text

Coming soon.