# Watson Text-to-Speech Service going to Inactive state

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/watson-text-to-speech-service-going-to-inactive-state/26106>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [5 May 2020 01:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/watson-text-to-speech-service-going-to-inactive-state/26106 "2020-05-05T01:30:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![ramani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3da27b/32.png) [@ramani](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ramani)\
**Post date:** [5 May 2020 01:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/watson-text-to-speech-service-going-to-inactive-state/26106/1 "2020-05-05T01:30:28Z")

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I have Lite plan.  
I am using Watson Text-to-speech service in a Node-Red Dashboard application flow. If the service is not used even for a short time (say 30 minutes) it goes to inactive state. Then the Node-Red app fails. I have to recreate new Text-to-Speech service instance from catalog etc. every time the service goes to Inactive state so that service can be used by the Node-Red app.

Can someone help with answers to:

1. How to reactivate the service which went into Inactive state ?
2. How to prevent it going to Inactive state in the first place?

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**Author:** ![moturivn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/moturivn/32/21330_2.png) [@moturivn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/moturivn)\
**Post date:** [5 May 2020 23:05 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/watson-text-to-speech-service-going-to-inactive-state/26106/2 "2020-05-05T23:05:17Z")

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I am hitting this issue as well. Can someone please provide guidance on how to solve this issue?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![ramani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3da27b/32.png) [@ramani](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ramani)\
**Post date:** [7 May 2020 01:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/watson-text-to-speech-service-going-to-inactive-state/26106/3 "2020-05-07T01:31:22Z")

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I upgraded my IBM cloud plan yesterday from Lite to Pay-as-you-go. I was hoping that, with the upgrade, the above problem will disappear from today. No luck; same issue. Regrettably, I had to create the service from scratch again and again.

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**Author:** ![moturivn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/moturivn/32/21330_2.png) [@moturivn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/moturivn)\
**Post date:** [7 May 2020 22:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/watson-text-to-speech-service-going-to-inactive-state/26106/4 "2020-05-07T22:37:48Z")

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I contacted IBM Cloud Support to address this issue. They said that I have reached my monthly limit for number of characters for this service. I upgraded this service to a standard plan (can be done by clicking on Text-To-Speech service and Plan) and it became active.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![ramani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3da27b/32.png) [@ramani](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ramani)\
**Post date:** [8 May 2020 01:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/watson-text-to-speech-service-going-to-inactive-state/26106/5 "2020-05-08T01:29:33Z")

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Thanks. Yes, that is what I did today. I will wait till morning to see that the service is still in the active state.

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [8 May 2020 08:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/watson-text-to-speech-service-going-to-inactive-state/26106/6 "2020-05-08T08:51:41Z")

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Please just be aware that once you upgrade from the Lite account, you no longer get the free memory allocation for your application and you _will_ start incurring a charge.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [7 July 2020 08:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/watson-text-to-speech-service-going-to-inactive-state/26106/7 "2020-07-07T08:51:44Z")

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