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# IBM Watson STT

## Component/part description

SDK to communicate with the Watson service.

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## Related projects

## Implementations Options considered

## Current implementation

The [ibm\_stt\_node](https://github.com/OpenNewsLabs/autoEdit_2/tree/master/lib/interactive_transcription_generator/transcriber/ibm_stt_node) module, splits the video into 5 min chunks

And the [send\_to\_watson](https://github.com/OpenNewsLabs/autoEdit_2/blob/master/lib/interactive_transcription_generator/transcriber/ibm_stt_node/send_to_watson.js) module comunciates with the API.

## What needs refactoring