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How to base64 decode on Windows 10 without base64.exe

Converting the base64 audio content response from the Google Cloud Text-to-Speech API into a playable file on windows using PowerShell.

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TL;DR You can call certutil from PowerShell to produce the required file. Introduction There is a moment in life where you get stuck in a quick start guide - we’ve all been there. At the start of my Google Cloud text-to-speech project it arrived quickly and unexpectedly at step two of this two-step quick start guide. I had successfully returned my first base64 encoded speech audio, onward to the last step: