Watson Text To Speech

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Convert written text into natural-sounding audio in a variety of languages and voices.

Get Version 4 (updated 11/3/2020)

How to add the Watson Text To Speech robot skill

Load the most recent release of ARC (Get ARC).
Press the Project tab from the top menu bar in ARC.
Press Add Robot Skill from the button ribbon bar in ARC.
Choose the Audio category tab.
Press the Watson Text To Speech icon to add the robot skill to your project.

Don't have a robot yet?

Follow the Getting Started Guide to build a robot and use the Watson Text To Speech robot skill.

How to use the Watson Text To Speech robot skill

With Watson Text to Speech, you can generate human-like audio from written text. Improve the customer experience and engagement by interacting with users in multiple languages and tones. Increase content accessibility for users with different abilities, provide audio options to avoid distracted driving, or automate customer service interactions to increase efficiencies.

You will need an IBM cloud account (Free Tier)

Watson Text To Speech

IBM Cloud dashboard

Press "Create Resource"
Text to Speech resource:

Quote:
The Lite plan gets you started with 10,000 characters per month at no cost.

Plugin Configuration:

1) Press Change to configure Service Credentials i.e. URL and Api Key
2) Select the default Voice for the Text To Speech
3) Check the Active checkbox to enable the service

How to use examples :

EZ Script:

Note: A specific voice name can be copied from the debug window

Code:
$text = "Hallo Wereld! Dit is Watson aan het woord"

#Text to speech will use the default voice specified in the configuration.
controlCommand("Watson Text To Speech", "SayWait", $text)

controlCommand("Watson Text To Speech", "SayWait2", "Bonjour le monde! C'est Watson qui parle", "fr-FR_ReneeV3Voice")

controlCommand("Watson Text To Speech", "SayWait2", "Ciao mondo! Questo è Watson che parla", "it-IT_FrancescaV3Voice")

controlCommand("Watson Text To Speech", "SayWait2", "Hello World! This is Watson speaking", "en-US_OliviaV3Voice")

Cheat Sheet:

Blocky example:

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Dave Schulpius

PRO

USA

#1 Oct 2020 — Edited Oct 2020

WOW! How about this! This is no simple thing. Lot's of work went into this. Thanks!!

ptp

PRO

USA

#2 Oct 2020

Thanks Dave !

Before it was a single Watson plugin supporting multiple services:
Speech To Text
Text To Speech
Visual Recognition
Assistant
Language Translator

It was too big and a little difficult to maintain, so I split in multiple service plugins and I'm fixing/releasing one by one.

The big one became the:
Watson Speech To Text

Dave Schulpius

PRO

USA

#3 Oct 2020

Brilliant idea. I wouldn't expect less from you.

Nink

PRO

Canada

#4 Apr 6 — Edited Apr 6

ControlCommand under javascript doesn't work even though it is on menu for selected items.

Example:
ControlCommand("Watson Speech To Text", StartListening);

in Javascript gets error StartLisening not defined
Start Stop etc all get the same error

You need to modify the auto menu generated command to put quotations around StartListening
ControlCommand("Watson Speech To Text", "StartListening");

In EZ-Script this works fine
ControlCommand("Watson Speech To Text", StartListening)

I think ARC will need an update to fix this until then if using the auto ControlCommand menu to generate Javascript remember to add quotes.