TIPS How do I get the Credentials for IBM STT

[ericlee1]

Trying to setup the Speech-To-Text and can't figure out the username/password combo..

this is my sample credentials key, what do I insert in the sendmailibm for username??

{
"apikey": "1lZ8Q5WqXuAKA3wp_FJkZVSNYLhnk28X5OI6CJXYvBeR",
"iam_apikey_description": "Auto generated apikey during resource-key operation for Instance - crn:v1:bluemixublic:speech-to-text:us-east:a/05b19ffc21c64b9d8d4e14a4de19c657:8472ccf0-b6ee-4650-86a0-ac48f5c3a072::",
"iam_apikey_name": "auto-generated-apikey-103ea991-1a2e-4318-8e4e-642f6c311b78",
"iam_role_crn": "crn:v1:bluemixublic:iam::::serviceRole:Manager",
"iam_serviceid_crn": "crn:v1:bluemixublic:iam-identity::a/05b19ffc21c64b9d8d4e14a4de19c657::serviceid:ServiceId-c1e5a0e5-258b-417e-88a6-faabc307b964",
"url": "https://gateway-wdc.watsonplatform.net/speech-to-text/api"
}



???
api_username
api_password

 

[David Foxworth]

You are using IAM authentication, the apikey is your authentication. In this case, there would not be an api_username or api_password. Normally in the curl command you would send "api_username:api_password". In your case, you would send "apikey:1lZ8Q5WqXuAKA3wp_FJkZVSNYLhnk28X5OI6CJXYvBeR".

However, I hope that is not your real API key, as if it is, you are basically exposing your password to the forum, so you might want to change it...

 

[ericlee1]

yes, credentials were deleted right before I posted this..

1. do I want to use IAM authentication? I was just trying to follow the tutorial...
2. how do I edit the bluemix-test or sendmailibm to reflect the IAM authentication

 

[David Foxworth]

You don't have any choice, from the URL you are using US-East Washington endpoint, and that is the only authentication it uses. You can try entering "apikey" as your api_username, and the actual key as api_password in the script.

Otherwise you could try pointing at the US-South endpoint, but eventually it will also be converted to IAM.

 

[wardmundy]

If you've set up both IBM's TTS and STT components, just be aware of the gotcha of confusing the credentials for the two components which are completely different and are not interchangeable.