From the course: Building a Video Transcriber with Node.js and Google AI Speech-To-Text API
Creating your GCP project
From the course: Building a Video Transcriber with Node.js and Google AI Speech-To-Text API
Creating your GCP project
- [Instructor] In this video, we'll be creating our GCP project, which is going to contain our setup for access to the Google AI speech to text API. Projects are the foundational building blocks in GCP. They help you organize, manage, and track your cloud-based endeavors, be it a simple app or a complex infrastructure. Starting on your GCP dashboard at the top left corner, here, you'll see a dropdown indicating your current project. Let's click on this. A menu appears, displaying all your existing projects. To create a new project, at the top of this menu, you'll find a new project button. Let's click on that. In the form that appears, you need to type in a name for your project, so let's go ahead and do that. We're just going to say, my video transcribing project. You can also select an organization on the way to put this project. But for this project, we're just going to be skipping this step. So click create, and Google Cloud will automatically create your project. As you can see, our project is currently being created, the task is currently in progress. Once the creation of your project is complete, click on the select project link on the notification. As you can see, the dashboard is now switched to our project. That's the one we just created. You can also always use this dropdown to select any project of choice. Let's cancel that. Now that our project is selected, the dashboard displays the project information and the current status of the project. This project should already be connected to a billing account. If not, you can navigate to the billing page by using the link on the side menu. As you can see, this project is currently not linked to any billing account, so let's do that. To link this project to a billing account, let's click the link, a billing account button. Now, let's click set account to activate this billing account for our selected project. And now, our project has been successfully set up with a billing account. You can also set up budget alerts to track your spending on this project. With our project all set up, we can now proceed to setting up Google's speech to text API for this project.