Getting a Code: 503 error in running Watson Speech to Text API

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I have been using the Watson API for a long time now, however it has started giving me Code:503 errors recently for the past 4 days and I am rarely able to get the desired output which I used to. The code works fine and is unchanged.

This is the error I am receving.

watson_developer_cloud.watson_service.WatsonApiException: Error: <HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Internal Server Error</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Internal Server Error - Write</H1>
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to
complete your request.<P>
Reference&#32;&#35;4&#46;327f1cb8&#46;1597063995&#46;c75870b
</BODY></HTML>
, Code: 503

Is it because of the overload on IBM cloud during the past couple of days or is there any network issues at my end?

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1 Answers

I had the same issue, I was using NodeJS and adding an extra "/" at the end of the URL seemed to work from the example found here: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/speech-to-text?code=node#recognize

const speechToText = new SpeechToTextV1({
  authenticator: new IamAuthenticator({
    apikey: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
  }),
  serviceUrl: 'https://api.us-east.speech-to-text.watson.cloud.ibm.com/instances/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx/',
});

^Note the extra "/" at the end of service URL

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