Calling a service with python on bluemix

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I'm using python on the IBM Bluemix platform. How can I do a call to the text-to-speech Watson service? I have the string inside my python code and I need to pass this text to be read.

See https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/text-to-speech-python for starter sample application — Alex da Silva, Mar 05 '16 at 23:06

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 06 '16 at 04:28

Assuming that you already have a Bluemix account and added text to speech Watson API to your Bluemix workspace, you have the credentials to access the API (restful).

If you were requesting using the CURL linux app, it would be something like this

curl -u "xxxxx729-b03f-4403-8adf-c5418ee4ea05":"xxxxxiWtmVoG" "https://stream.watsonplatform.net/text-to-speech/api/v1/synthesize?text=Hello+World" -H "accept: audio/flac" > sound.flac

Using Python, it can be

import requests

headers = {'accept': 'audio/flac'}

r = requests.get('https://stream.watsonplatform.net/text-to-speech/api/v1/synthesize?text=Hello+World', auth=('xxxxx729-b03f-4403-8adf-c5418ee4ea05', 'xxxxxiWtmVoG'), headers=headers)

with open('/home/leo/sound.flac', 'wb') as fd:
    for chunk in r.iter_content(1024):
        fd.write(chunk)

See http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/ for details on the requests package.

See https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/text-to-speech/api/v1/ for text2Speech documentation.

Thank you so much @Leo... everything you explained here was very useful... it was what I needed to start... — Vitor Hugo, Mar 06 '16 at 15:22
Then how about upvoting the answer or tagging it as the correct answer? Just a thought. ;-) — Tom Pohl, Feb 10 '17 at 17:58

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 06 '16 at 15:47

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Best thing is to use Watson Developer Cloud Python SDK

answered Mar 06 '16 at 15:47

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