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.
- 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
apikey
value, or copy theusername
andpassword
values if your service instance doesn't provide anapikey
. - Copy the
url
value.
-
In the application folder, copy the .env.example file and create a file called .env
cp .env.example .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
apikey
andurl
for a Text to Speech service instance hosted in the US East region:TEXT_TO_SPEECH_IAM_APIKEY=X4rbi8vwZmKpXfowaS3GAsA7vdy17Qh7km5D6EzKLHL2 TEXT_TO_SPEECH_URL=https://stream-wdc.watsonplatform.net/text-to-speech/api
- If your service instance uses
username
andpassword
credentials, add theTEXT_TO_SPEECH_USERNAME
andTEXT_TO_SPEECH_PASSWORD
variables to the .env file.
Example .env file that configures the
username
,password
, andurl
for a Text to Speech service instance hosted in the US South region:TEXT_TO_SPEECH_USERNAME=522be-7b41-ab44-dec3-g1eab2ha73c6 TEXT_TO_SPEECH_PASSWORD=A4Z5BdGENrwu8 TEXT_TO_SPEECH_URL=https://stream.watsonplatform.net/text-to-speech/api
- If your service instance uses
-
Install the dependencies
npm install
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Run the application
npm start
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View the application in a browser at
localhost:3000
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Login to IBM Cloud with the IBM Cloud CLI
ibmcloud login
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Target a Cloud Foundry organization and space.
ibmcloud target --cf
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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
ibmcloud app push
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View the application online at the app URL, for example: https://my-app-name.mybluemix.net
.
├── 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
This sample code is licensed under Apache 2.0.
See CONTRIBUTING.
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