Golos — Text to Speech Plugin for Joomla uses Google Cloud Text-to-Speech API. You need to set up your Google Cloud Platform project and authorization before creating audio from text.
Visit the Google Cloud Platform project to select or create a new project. Click + Create Project button to create a new Google Cloud Project.
If you already have created a project - go to Step 4
Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project. Check out Google Cloud resource prices and quotes. You can use a free quote when using Golos or pay if you use a plugin on a high-load website.
Enable the Cloud Text-to-Speech API.
Set up authentication:
- In the Cloud Console, go to the Create service account key page.
- From the Service account list, select New service account.
- In the Service account name field, enter a name.
- Don’t select a value from the Role list. No role is required to access this service.
- Click Create. A note appears, warning that this service account has no role.
- Click Create without role. A JSON file that contains your key downloads to your computer.