Ibm watson stt

[pietrop]

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#51
Describe what the PR does

• removes Speechmatics, as their API web portal has been deprecated 😞
• Adds IBM Watson STT to provide support for languages other then English

State whether the PR is ready for review or whether it needs extra work

Work in progress
Additional context

• Add IBM as an STT language in settings
• add option to add Credentials for IBM Watson
• Remove Speechmatics from settings
• Add IBM Watson module SDK (eg from autoEdit2) to "backend"
• add speaker diarization info to the IBM Watson to dpe converter
• remove apikey field, in settings
• remove example url in settings
• remove speechmatics node module SDK from "backend"
• test with IBM Watson STT credentials
• update user manual

[pietrop]

getting an error from IBM Watson STT API

There was an error transcribing Bad Request: Stream was 15 bytes but needs to be at least 100 bytes.

[pietrop]

This is the .recognize function in the IBM Watson SDK

https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk/blob/master/speech-to-text/v1.ts#L155

[johnfelipe]

wich is progress about watson for version3?

[pietrop]

👋 @johnfelipe we are waiting on @seanmtracey IBM's update

Meanwhile there might be an alternative way to add other languages via GCP STT #49