Note: The gcloud command-line tool is the powerful and unified command-line tool in Google Cloud.

Run the following command in Cloud Shell to confirm that you are authenticated:.

Once connected to Cloud Shell, you should see that you are authenticated and that the project is set to your project ID. Much, if not all, of your work in this codelab can be done with a browser. It offers a persistent 5 GB home directory and runs in Google Cloud, greatly enhancing network performance and authentication. This virtual machine is loaded with all the development tools needed. It should only take a few moments to provision and connect to Cloud Shell. If you were presented with an intermediate screen, click Continue. If this is your first time starting Cloud Shell, you're presented with an intermediate screen describing what it is.

From the Cloud Console, click Activate Cloud Shell.

While Google Cloud can be operated remotely from your laptop, in this codelab you will be using Google Cloud Shell, a command line environment running in the Cloud. New Google Cloud users are eligible for the $300 USD Free Trial program. To shut down resources to avoid incurring billing beyond this tutorial, you can delete the resources you created or delete the project. Running through this codelab won't cost much, if anything at all.

Next, you'll need to enable billing in the Cloud Console to use Cloud resources/APIs.

If you use a Google Workspace account, choose a location that makes sense for your organization. Note: If you use a Gmail account, you can leave the default location set to No organization.

Even if a project is deleted, the ID can't be used again Learn more about all three of these values in the documentation.Ĭaution: A project ID is globally unique and can't be used by anyone else after you've selected it. For your information, there is a third value, a Project Number, which some APIs use.It can't be changed after this step and remains for the duration of the project. Alternatively, you can try your own, and see if it's available. If you don't like the generated ID, you might generate another random one.

In most codelabs, you'll need to reference your Project ID (typically identified as PROJECT_ID). The Cloud Console auto-generates a unique string usually you don't care what it is. The Project ID is unique across all Google Cloud projects and is immutable (cannot be changed after it has been set).It is a character string not used by Google APIs. The Project name is the display name for this project's participants.If you don't already have a Gmail or Google Workspace account, you must create one. Sign-in to the Google Cloud Console and create a new project or reuse an existing one.Survey How will you use this tutorial? Read it through only Read it and complete the exercises How would you rate your experience with C#? Novice Intermediate Proficient How would you rate your experience with using Google Cloud Platform services? Novice Intermediate Proficient How to transcribe audio files in different languages.How to transcribe audio files with word timestamps.How to transcribe audio files in English.How to install the Google Cloud client library for C#.You will learn how to send an audio file in English and other languages to the Cloud Speech-to-Text API for transcription. In this codelab, you will focus on using the Speech-to-Text API with C#. Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API enables developers to convert audio to text in 120 languages and variants, by applying powerful neural network models in an easy to use API.

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