Enabling the API

Now that we have a project and we have both API and Service Account Keys, we will enable the required API and test our application. Navigate to the project home page (https://console.cloud.google.com/home/dashboard?project=smart-exchange-b10882). From the menu on the left-hand side, select APIs & Services | Library. Once we land on this page, search for Cloud Speech API and click on that card. Then, click on the Enable button. This will prompt you to set up billing, if you have not already done this. Once you have enabled billing and the API, you should see that the Cloud Speech API is enabled:

In the next section, we are going to explore the API.