github.com/deepgram-starters/text-to-speech-starter-go

Text-to-Speech Starter (Go)

This example app demonstrates how to use the Deepgram Text-to-Speech API with Go.

What is Deepgram?

Deepgram is a voice AI company providing speech-to-text and language understanding capabilities to make data readable and actionable by human or machines.

Sign-up to Deepgram

Before you start, it's essential to generate a Deepgram API key to use in this project. Sign-up now for Deepgram and create an API key.

Quickstart

Manual

Follow these steps to get started with this starter application.

Clone the repository

Go to GitHub and clone the repository.

Install dependencies

Install the project dependencies.

go get

Select branch

The main branch demonstrates a basic implementation: text is sent to the API and an audio file response with synthesized text-to-speech is returned.

Checkout the other branches to see added functionality:

• output streaming: Demonstrates how to take advantage of Deepgram's output streaming feature. This example streams the audio response to the client as it is being generated.

git checkout output-streaming

Set your Deepgram API key

If using bash, this can be done in your ~/.bash_profile like so:

export DEEPGRAM_API_KEY="YOUR_DEEPGRAM_API_KEY"

or this could also be done by a simple export before executing your Go application:

DEEPGRAM_API_KEY="YOUR_DEEPGRAM_API_KEY" go run main.go

Run the application

The dev script will run a web and API server concurrently. Once running, you can access the application in your browser.

go run .

Issue Reporting

If you have found a bug or if you have a feature request, please report them at this repository issues section. Please do not report security vulnerabilities on the public GitHub issue tracker. The Security Policy details the procedure for contacting Deepgram.

Getting Help

We love to hear from you so if you have questions, comments or find a bug in the project, let us know! You can either:

• Open an issue in this repository
• Join the Deepgram Github Discussions Community
• Join the Deepgram Discord Community

Author

Deepgram

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.