title: 'google-cloud-speech' JSON output of speech to text returns unreadable text
body: <p>I sent a speech to text request like this:
  gcloud ml speech recognize-long-running gs://audio_abcd/5.flac --language-code=iw-IL --async --audio-channel-count=2 --separate-channel-recognition</p>
  <p>but the output I got is not readable:</p>
  <pre class="lang-json prettyprint-override"><code>   {
       &quot;@type&quot;: &quot;type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.speech.v1.LongRunningRecognizeResponse&quot;,
       &quot;results&quot;: [
          {
          &quot;alternatives&quot;: [
          {
            &quot;confidence&quot;: 0.9204097,
            &quot;transcript&quot;: &quot;??? ??? ?????? ????? ?????? ????? ??? ????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ???? ????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ???? ???? ???? ??? ?? ???? ???? ?? ?? ?? ???? ????? ????? ?? ??? ???? ??? ????? ?????? ????? ???? ?? ???? ???? ??? ???? ????? ??? ???? ????? ????? ????? ????? ??? ???? ?????? ??? ????? ?????? ?? ?? ??? ?? ?? ???? ???? ?? ???? ????? ????? ???? ???? ????? ?? ??????? ????? ??? ????? ??? ???? ?? ???? ???? ????? ?????? ???? ??????? ????? ??? ????? ?? ?? ?? ?? ????? ????? ????? ??? ??????? ??? ????? ??&quot;
          }
        ],
        &quot;channelTag&quot;: 2
      },
  </code></pre>
  <p>any idea how I either extract the hebrew characters from the output, or specify an output character set encoding?</p>
  <p>Thanks</p>