Angular Watson Voice

An IBM Watson speech to text application in Angular and Node. Uses the speech-javascript-sdk library for speech to text services in web browsers.

Requirements

1. Get IBM Watson service credentials

   • Sign up for a free IBM Cloud account or log in.

   • Go to the Watson Developer Services page.

   • Select Speech to Text and create a project.

   • Copy the credentials to authenticate to your service instance (will be used later in .env config).

2. Install the Angular CLI

   npm install -g @angular/cli

Getting Started

1. Clone this repository

   git clone https://github.com/stevengregory/angular-watson-voice.git
   cd angular-watson-voice

2. Install the npm packages

   npm install

3. Configure environment settings

   Create a .env file and place it in the root directory of the project. Add the following username & password and replace the values with your IBM Watson service credentials. No worries, the file is in the .gitignore so it won't get pushed to the GitHub repository.

   SPEECH_TO_TEXT_USERNAME=your_ibm_project_username
   SPEECH_TO_TEXT_PASSWORD=your_ibm_project_password

Running the app locally

1. Build the Angular app and launch the node server.

   Running this command will start both the client app & token server and open the browser to http://localhost:4200.

   npm start