Speech Sample Project not working

[anthonybaker]

The Speech Sample Project is not working. I cloned the repo, and setup the Speech Recognition Sample following the instructions.
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/nodejs-docs-samples/tree/master/speech

When I try to run the command:

node recognize.js --help

I get the following error:

const Speech = require('@google-cloud/speech');
^^^^^
SyntaxError: Use of const in strict mode.
    at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:906:3

I tried passing the harmony flag:

node --harmony recognize.js --help

But then, I got another error:

   .then((results) => {
                     ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token >
    at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:906:3

My node version is:
v7.3.0

I would expect the sample code to run without issues. I haven't touched the recognize.js file, apart fro adding my project id.

I'd appreciate the help.

Many thanks
-Anthony

[jmdobry]

The two errors your posted are thrown when you're using an older version of Node.js that only supports ES2015 features behind a flag. Are you sure your version of Node.js is v7.3.0.

Can you post here the output of:

node -v
node recognize.js --help

[fhinkel]

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