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🔊 Text to Speech Demo
Node.js sample applications that shows some of the the IBM Watson Text to Speech service features.
Text to Speech is designed for streaming, low latency, synthesis of audio from text. It is the inverse of the automatic speech recognition.
You can view a demo of this app.
Prerequisites
- Sign up for an IBM Cloud account.
- Download the IBM Cloud CLI.
- Create an instance of the Text to Speech service and get your credentials:
- Go to the Text to Speech page in the IBM Cloud Catalog.
- Log in to your IBM Cloud account.
- Click Create.
- Click Show to view the service credentials.
- Copy the
apikeyvalue. - Copy the
urlvalue.
Configuring the application
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In the application folder, copy the .env.example file and create a file called .env
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Open the .env file and add the service credentials that you obtained in the previous step.
Example .env file that configures the
apikeyandurlfor a Text to Speech service instance hosted in the US East region:TEXT_TO_SPEECH_IAM_APIKEY=X4rbi8vwZmKpXfowaS3GAsA7vdy17Qh7km5D6EzKLHL2 TEXT_TO_SPEECH_URL=https://gateway-wdc.watsonplatform.net/text-to-speech/api
Running locally
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Install the dependencies
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Run the application
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View the application in a browser at
localhost:3000
Deploying to IBM Cloud as a Cloud Foundry Application
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Login to IBM Cloud with the IBM Cloud CLI
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Target a Cloud Foundry organization and space.
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Edit the manifest.yml file. Change the name field to something unique. For example,
- name: my-app-name. -
Deploy the application
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View the application online at the app URL, for example: https://my-app-name.mybluemix.net
Directory structure
.
├── app.js // express routes
├── config // express configuration
│ ├── error-handler.js
│ ├── express.js
│ └── security.js
├── manifest.yml
├── package.json
├── public // static resources
├── server.js // entry point
├── test // tests
└── views // react components
License
This sample code is licensed under Apache 2.0.
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.
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