IBM Watson Speech to Text & Text to Speech

To begin with IBM’s API, you first need to have an IBM Cloud account. Once you have created your account, follow the following steps.

1. from the top left navigation menu on the dashboard, go to Resources list.
2. then, click on Create Resource.
3. then, in the categories section, select AI and select Speech to Text. Create your service without changing anything.
4. after your service is created, click on the service.
5. select manage from the navigation menu and click on show credentials.
6. copy the api key and url generated.
7. do the same steps to create Text to Speech service.

Installing

Run the following commands in the terminal.

pip install --upgrade "ibm-watson>=5.2.2"

pip install SpeechRecognition

Place your IBM Watson Service credentials in main.py

# Speech to Text service credentials
stt_api = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
stt_url = 'YOUR_URL'

# Text to Speech service credentials
tts_api = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
tts_url = 'YOUR_URL'

Resources

• Speech Recognition – Speech To Text In Python Using Google API, Wit.AI, IBM, CMUSphinx
• Convert your speech to text in real-time using a microphone
• IBM Cloud Docs