macos cli starter guide

Welch, Ivo 0

I am trying to play around with azure text to speech on macos. the instructions are woefully incomplete. I start with https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/get-started-speech-to-text?tabs=macos%2Cterminal&pivots=programming-language-cli

$ brew install dotnet
... (all ok)

$ dotnet tool install --global Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech.CLI
...
Tool 'microsoft.cognitiveservices.speech.cli' (version '1.37.0') was successfully installed.

$ zsh -l ; cd ~/.dotnet/tools ; ls
spx*

$ O studio-office@~/.dotnet/tools:0:1006% ./spx help   
You must install .NET to run this application.
App: /Users/ivo/.dotnet/tools/spx
Architecture: arm64
App host version: 8.0.4
.NET location: Not found
Learn more:
https://aka.ms/dotnet/app-launch-failed
Download the .NET runtime:
https://aka.ms/dotnet-core-applaunch?missing_runtime=true&arch=arm64&rid=osx-arm64&os=osx.14&apphost_version=8.0.4

What now?

And if the instructions told me on which page I would actually find '@key' and `@region' and what form they take (is @region a quoted "US West"?), it would be wonderful.

VasaviLankipalle-MSFT 15,006 Reputation points

2024-05-15T22:50:48.27+00:00

Hello @Welch, Ivo , Thanks for using Microsoft Q&A Platform.

Try to Create a Speech resource in the Azure portal. After your Speech resource is deployed, select Go to resource to view and manage keys.

For more information about Azure AI services resources, see Get the keys for your resource.

Here is the sample from the Azure portal related to key and region details:

Also, your Azure account must have a Cognitive Services Contributor role assigned. Follow the steps in the Assign roles documentation.
VasaviLankipalle-MSFT 15,006 Reputation points

2024-05-15T22:55:26+00:00

Hello @Welch, Ivo , please refer to this pre-requisite that help you understand the key and endpoint information from Azure portal: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/get-started-speech-to-text?tabs=macos%2Cterminal&pivots=programming-language-cli#prerequisites
ivo welch 40 Reputation points

2024-05-16T20:16:17.4966667+00:00

I am surprised that my post was even posted. After posting, I got to a "404" page, so I thought everything had just died. MS needs to fix this.

I decided that macos arm64 with brew and instructions is just too painful. I would suggest that you consider creating a homebrew command that "just works." alternatively, maybe put up a VM that has everything already installed.

I did get the REST version to work. It was much simpler.

Someone should resell amazon non-realtime tts on a userfriendly website. it is much cheaper than elevenlabs. (I believe the license to generated audio is generous enough to allow passing the results around.)

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