Watson Speech to text could not resolve host

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I'm trying to use the ibm watson speech to text service. Using Curl and the appropriate credentials i'm getting an error and don't understand why. I'm new to this so i need some help

I'm using this command-lines to get the text out of an audio file:

 curl -u username:password -X POST \ --header "Content-Type: audio/flac" \ --header "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" \ --data-binary @/tmp/0001.flac \ "https://stream.watsonplatform.net/speech-to-text/api/v1/recognize?continuous=true"

and i'm getting this error:

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: --header curl: (6) Could not resolve host: Content-Type curl: (6) Could not resolve host: --header curl: (6) Could not resolve host: Transfer-Encoding curl: (6) Could not resolve host: --data-binary curl: (6) Could not resolve host: curl: (1) Protocol https not supported or disabled in libcurl

does anybody know what i'm doing wrong?

The \ --header escapes the space before --header so it's not recognized as an option. — Kenney
Indeed. It's possible that the original commandline was spanning multiple lines; in that case the \ would mean to append the next line. But when it's not the last character in the line, it escapes the next character, changing the --header parameter to ` --header` (with an extra space). It doesn't start with -- and is seen as the hostname rather than an option. — Kenney
dude you're a life saver. it worked. i did it earlier but i guess i left an extra space or something. but now it worked. thanks! — Angel G Garcia Almodovar

German Attanasio German Attanasio · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-15T14:10:35

Remove the / from the curl command, we use them in the API Reference to better display the curl commands but they don't work in Windows.

curl -u username:password -X POST  
--header "Content-Type: audio/flac"  
--header "Transfer-Encoding: chunked"
--data-binary @/tmp/0001.flac 
"https://stream.watsonplatform.net/speech-to-text/api/v1/recognize?continuous=true"

The command will work in unix based system like Ubuntu or Mac.

Watson Speech to text could not resolve host

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