Speech: 403 Request had insufficient authentication scopes.

See #3212 for more information

Getting the same error and also it gave me 403 request error. google.api_core.exceptions.PermissionDenied: 403 Request had insufficient authentication scopes.

Note: Google SPeech API is enabled and I am using Python 3.6

Here is the code, thank you for your help.

 import argparse
 import io

 from google.oauth2 import service_account

 scope = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive'
 credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file('Speech2Text-
 71ae27307424.json',scopes=(scope,))

 def transcribe_file_with_word_time_offsets(speech_file):
     """Transcribe the given audio file synchronously and output the word time
     offsets."""
     print("Start")
    
     from google.cloud import speech
     from google.cloud.speech import enums
     from google.cloud.speech import types   
    
     print("checking credentials")
    
     client = speech.SpeechClient(credentials=credentials)

     print("Checked")
     with io.open(speech_file, 'rb') as audio_file:
          content = audio_file.read()
        
     print("audio file read")    
    
     audio = types.RecognitionAudio(content=content)
    
     print("config start")
     config = types.RecognitionConfig(
             encoding=enums.RecognitionConfig.AudioEncoding.LINEAR16,
             sample_rate_hertz=16000,
             language_code='en-US',
             enable_word_time_offsets=True)
    
     print("Recognizing:")
     response = client.recognize(config, audio) ## MAJOR PROBLEM
     print("Recognized")
 
     for result in response.results:
         alternative = result.alternatives[0]
         print('Transcript: {}'.format(alternative.transcript))
 
         for word_info in alternative.words:
             word = word_info.word
             start_time = word_info.start_time
             end_time = word_info.end_time
             print('Word: {}, start_time: {}, end_time: {}'.format(
                 word,
                 start_time.seconds + start_time.nanos * 1e-9,
                 end_time.seconds + end_time.nanos * 1e-9))
 
 def transcribe_gcs_with_word_time_offsets(gcs_uri):
     """Transcribe the given audio file asynchronously and output the word time
     offsets."""
     from google.cloud import speech
     from google.cloud.speech import enums
     from google.cloud.speech import types
     client = speech.SpeechClient()
 
     audio = types.RecognitionAudio(uri=gcs_uri)
     config = types.RecognitionConfig(
         encoding=enums.RecognitionConfig.AudioEncoding.FLAC,
         sample_rate_hertz=16000,
         language_code='en-US',
         enable_word_time_offsets=True)
 
     operation = client.long_running_recognize(config, audio)
 
     print('Waiting for operation to complete...')
     result = operation.result(timeout=90)
 
     for result in result.results:
         alternative = result.alternatives[0]
         print('Transcript: {}'.format(alternative.transcript))
         print('Confidence: {}'.format(alternative.confidence))
 
         for word_info in alternative.words:
             word = word_info.word
             start_time = word_info.start_time
             end_time = word_info.end_time
             print('Word: {}, start_time: {}, end_time: {}'.format(
                 word,
                 start_time.seconds + start_time.nanos * 1e-9,
                 end_time.seconds + end_time.nanos * 1e-9))

 if __name__ == '__main__':
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__,
         formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
     parser.add_argument(dest='path', help='File or GCS path for audio file to be recognized')
     args = parser.parse_args()
     if args.path.startswith('gs://'):
         transcribe_gcs_with_word_time_offsets(args.path)
     else:
         transcribe_file_with_word_time_offsets(args.path)

[theacodes]

You can’t use the drive scope to access Cloud Speech, you need to use to google-cloud-platform scope, or just leave scope unspecified and the library will handle it.

[aliallamy]

replace this line:

static string[] Scopes = { SheetsService.Scope.Spreadsheets.ReadOnly };

with this:

static string[] Scopes = { SheetsService.Scope.Spreadsheets };

and if you did not pass, delete (token.json) folder and try again