IBM Watson STT

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Speechmatics is discontinuing their web portal, meaning the access to STT with API key will no longer be supported, from 30th of Sept 2020. See their deprecation notice for more details.

Describe the solution you'd like

Have an alternative to be able to still cater for languages other than English, eg Italian.

Describe alternatives you've considered

autoEdit 2 used to have support for IBM Watson. So thinking of bringing that back.

• Watson STT Patch OpenNewsLabs/autoEdit_2#50
• Update autoEdit to new IBM credentials system OpenNewsLabs/autoEdit_2#85
• IBM Settings helper text + fix config var OpenNewsLabs/autoEdit_2#91
• add additional IBM languages OpenNewsLabs/autoEdit_2#96

Note: Only annoying thing is that IBM requires to add credit card details even for the free trial of the pay as you go option.

Additional context

• IBM Watson STT API Reference docs

[johnfelipe]

will be possible have this API in next v3 releases?
i want to test spanish version API, and only ibm is good in autoedit2

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we are still waiting on IBM to sort out their SDK. @seanmtracey might have some updates?

[johnfelipe]

None advance with Watson IBM to Spanish language?

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Hey @johnfelipe
Unfortunately no. And I don't have quiet enough time at the moment to look into it. But would welcome PRs and could advise if anyone else has got capacity to dig into it.