How to base64 decode on Windows 10 without base64.exe

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

TL;DR

You can call certutil from PowerShell to produce the required file.

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:

“Decode the source text file using the Base64.exe tool:”