How to get Key File for the Contacter WordPress Plugins

The Contacter plugin has a great voice recognition feature that uses the Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API. Using the provided guide, you can create a new project and get your own Key File.

Creating the Google Cloud Key File

If you are a beginner and have never worked Google Cloud before, you will read and accept the Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service and any applicable services and APIs

Step 1

Everything is ready to begin the process of getting the API key. Visit the Google Cloud Platform project to select or create a new project

Step 2

Click + Create Project button to create a new Google Cloud Project. Go to Step 4, if you have already created a project.

Create a New Project
Create a New Project

Set a unique name for your project, or use the default project name. And click the Create button. Please note that the name of the project cannot be changed later.

Create a new project
Create a new project
Step 3

After creating the project visit the Project Dashboard page.

Select your project
Select your project
Step 4

Visit the Billing tab to make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud Platform project. Check out Google Cloud resource prices and quotes. You can use a free quote when using Voicer or pay if you use a plugin on a high-load WordPress website.

Project billing settings
Project billing settings

Link a billing account to your project. Learn how to enable billing in Google Cloud Project.

Important

Set the Budget Alerts to control the use of quotas and debits.

Step 5

Enable Speech-to-Text API for your project

Register your application
Register your application

Cloud Speech-to-Text API has been enabled for your project

API enabled
API enabled
Step 6

To use the API you’ll need the right credentials.

Add a credential to your project
Add a credential to your project

Click What credentials do I need? to proceed. Then click Create credentials -> Service account key

Voicer Key File Create Credentials
Create Service account key
Step 7

From the Service account list, select New service account. In the Service account name field, enter a name.

Create key file
Create a JSON file
Important

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.

Voicer Key File Creation
Service account role

Click Create without role. A JSON file that contains your key downloads to your computer

After this, the Key File will be generated and saved on your computer. You can find it in your browser’s download folder.

Upload the key file to the Contacter Plugin

Step 1

Visit your WordPress website Admin Panel and open the plugin settings. Go to Contacter->General

API Key File settings
Step 2

Click Select Key File and upload your Key File to the WordPress media library.

Contacter API Key
Step 3

Click Save Changes for the changes to take effect.

That’s all for getting the Key File. Learn more about how to Install WordPress Plugin and customize the plugin from the article Contacter Plugin Settings.

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