Text to Speech and Speech to Text services with IBM Bluemix This page reorganizes the operational steps for Text to Speech and Speech to Text services with IBM Bluemix. Subscribe to IBM Bluemix and login to its web interface http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/ Log in and create your space. 400px From the catalog, select the Speech to Text and Text to Speech and create the service. 400px Credentials are automatically created and ready to be used. 400px Insert the credentials in the relative section in MiRTA PBX. You can find the Voice Synthesizer section in both Admin/Settings and Configuration/Settings 400px Be sure to not mix username and password when entering credentials in MiRTA PBX UPDATE IBM changed their API authentication, so only the API KEY is provided. You need to enter "apikey" as username and the key provided as password IBM has changed the interface so to go straight to the API KEY, got to https://cloud.ibm.com/resources, select the Speech to Text or Text to Speech service and then press on "Complete Details", then you can check the API credentials You need to locate this page and get the credentials highlighted: 400px ANOTHER UPDATE IBM has announced it will discontinue the current hard coded endpoint stream.watsonplatform.net and request you to check your account for the correct endpoint to use: The pattern for the new URLs is api.{location}.{offering}.watson.cloud.ibm.com For details on how to find and update the URL, see "Update endpoint URLs from watsonplatform.net" here: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/watson?topic=watson-endpoint-change Yet Another update The discontinuation of the old API is now complete. You need to enter the full URL for the service in the endpoint field, like for Speech to text: https://api.us-east.speech-to-text.watson.cloud.ibm.com/instances/82baccdd-45ee-46ff-ba1a-3cd23425b3c1/v1/recognize for Text to speech: https://api.us-east.text-to-speech.watson.cloud.ibm.com/instances/7615166e-9aee-42db-71e8-52fd6fa50586f/v1/synthesize Current Verification After applying the change, verify the related MiRTA PBX page, the Asterisk logs, and the relevant Status menu entry. Recheck tenant selection before testing tenant-specific behavior.