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IBM Watson TextToSpeech - cannot read property .pipe of undefined


I have the following code, straight from the documentation:

var TextToSpeechV1 = require('watson-developer-cloud/text-to-speech/v1');
var fs = require('fs');

var textToSpeech = new TextToSpeechV1({
  iam_apikey: '---myapikey---',
  url: 'https://stream.watsonplatform.net/text-to-speech/api/'
});
    
var synthesizeParams = {
  text: 'Hello world, you dummy ass',
  accept: 'audio/wav',
  voice: 'en-US_AllisonVoice'
};

// Pipe the synthesized text to a file. 
textToSpeech.synthesize(synthesizeParams).on('error', function(error) {
  console.log(error);
}).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('hello_world.wav'));

when I run it it gives the following error:

pi@raspberrypi:~/Desktop/tjbotcz_lite $ sudo node ttstest.js
/home/pi/Desktop/tjbotcz_lite/ttstest.js:16
textToSpeech.synthesize(synthesizeParams).on('error', function(error) {
                                         ^

TypeError: Cannot read property 'on' of undefined
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/Desktop/tjbotcz_lite/ttstest.js:16:42)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:654:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:665:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:566:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:506:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:498:3)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:695:10)
    at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:201:19)
    at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:516:3)

Any clues why? I have the same issue with TJBot, so I tried a simple example from documentation and voila - the same error. When I use my old service (with username and password, not api key) it works fine. I have the new version of watson-cloud library (3.13.1).


Solution

  • The below code works for me and generating an audio.wav file using the Text-to-Speech API Key

    var TextToSpeechV1 = require('watson-developer-cloud/text-to-speech/v1');
    var fs = require('fs');
    
    var textToSpeech = new TextToSpeechV1({
      iam_apikey: '<API_KEY>',
      url: 'https://stream.watsonplatform.net/text-to-speech/api'
    });
    
    var synthesizeParams = {
      text: 'Hello world',
      accept: 'audio/wav',
      voice: 'en-US_AllisonVoice'
    };
    
    textToSpeech
      .synthesize(synthesizeParams, function(err, audio) {
        if (err) {
          console.log(err);
          return;
        }
        textToSpeech.repairWavHeader(audio);
        fs.writeFileSync('audio.wav', audio);
        console.log('audio.wav written with a corrected wav header');
    });
    

    Updated the code snippet and this works