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

• Install with go get github.com/O-kasso/loquacious/loq
• 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
• Validate everything is working with loq talk --demo

Text-to-Speech

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

$ loq path/to/ssml/script.ssml

If you didn't export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS:

$ GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=$HOME/gcp_service_key.json loq path/to/ssml/script.ssml

Speech-to-Text

To record audio from default input device and generate a transcript:

loq listen