How to add the environment variables in Windows?

I cannot figure out how to set the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS on Windows 10.

The documentation is pretty sparse.

I have Node setup OK, and cloned this repo.

I get the following error when running the command node recognize "resources/quit.raw"

Got audio file! Loading speech service… { [Error: Google Cloud Speech API has not been used in project google.com:cloudsdktool before or it is disabled. Enable it by visiting https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/speech.googleapis.com/overview?project=google.com:cloudsdktool then retry. If you enabled this API recently, wait a few minutes for the action to propagate to our systems and retry.] code: 403, errors: [ { message: ‘Google Cloud Speech API has not been used in project google.com:cloudsdktool before or it is disabled. Enable it by visiting https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/speech.googleapis.com/overview?project=google.com:cloudsdktool then retry. If you enabled this API recently, wait a few minutes for the action to propagate to our systems and retry.’, domain: ‘global’, reason: ‘forbidden’ } ] }

Why is it looking at the wrong project?

How do I set it to look at my project (I have a google project with speech api enabled)

[jmdobry]

Why is it looking at the wrong project?

Make sure your GCLOUD_PROJECT environment variable is set to your Google project ID.

Command prompt:

set GCLOUD_PROJECT=your-project-id
set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/service_account_file.json

Powershell:

$env:GCLOUD_PROJECT="your-project-id"
$env:GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="/path/to/service_account_file.json"

[sakthigeek]

Hi @sonanhson, I found the solution, use the following code to add the environment variable, it works. But I don’t know yet why the other approaches don’t work.

import os os.environ[“GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS”] = “path_to_your_.json_credential_file”

This will also be useful when you are switching between projects that need different credentials.