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6.6 Greetings - text to speech configuration

6.6 Greetings - text to speech configuration

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Last updated: Aug 19, 2021 by Łukasz Henne

The text to speech allows to create new greetings in the VUC portal (PBX), it is described here 20.3 Text to speech

Configuration

The function uses the IBM Watson API. You will need an account on that service to enable text to speech in VUC. Click here to open an account  https://console.bluemix.net/registration/?target=/catalog/category=watson

In the AppSettings.config file in VUC (version 3.6.5 and above) directory find the following section and set the url/password credentials, check the screens below:

AppSettings.config

<!-- TEXT TO SPEECH -->
<add key="WatsonTextToSpeechUserName" value="xxxxx" />
<add key="WatsonTextToSpeechPassword" value="yyyyy" />
<add key="WatsonTextToSpeechUrl" value="https://stream.watsonplatform.net/text-to-speech/api" />
<add key="WatsonTextToSpeechTemp" value="C:\mp3files\" />
<!-- TEXT TO SPEECH -->


Troubleshooting

If you are using the old API, check below how to configure:

In the AppSettings.config file in VUC directory find the following section and set the user/password credentials:

AppSettings.config

<!-- TEXT TO SPEECH -->
<add key="WatsonTextToSpeechUserName" value="xxxxx" />
<add key="WatsonTextToSpeechPassword" value="yyyyy" />
<add key="WatsonTextToSpeechUrl" value="https://stream.watsonplatform.net/text-to-speech/api" />
<add key="WatsonTextToSpeechTemp" value="C:\mp3files\" />
<!-- TEXT TO SPEECH -->

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