Troubleshooting

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    • Zhou Wang
    • Gary Ericson

Error HTTP 403 Forbidden

When using speech recognition API, it returns an HTTP 403 Forbidden error.

Cause

This error is often caused by authentication issues. Connection requests without valid Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key or Authorization header are rejected by the service with an HTTP 403 Forbidden response.

If you are using subscription key for authentication, the reason could be

  • the subscription key is missing or invalid
  • the usage quota of the subscription key is exceeded
  • the Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key field is not set in the request header, when REST API is called

If you are using authorization token for authentication, the following reasons could cause the error.

  • the Authorization header is missing in the request when using REST
  • the authorization token specified in the Authorization header is invalid
  • the authorization token is expired. The access token has an expiry of 10 minutes

For more information about authentication, see the Authentication page.

Troubleshooting steps

Verify that your subscription key is valid

You can run the following command for verification. Note to replace YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION_KEY with your own subscription key. If your subscription key is valid, you receive in the response the authorization token as a JSON Web Token (JWT). Otherwise you get an error in response.

Note

Replace YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION_KEY with your own subscription key.

$FetchTokenHeader = @{
  'Content-type'='application/x-www-form-urlencoded';
  'Content-Length'= '0';
  'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' = 'YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION_KEY'
}

$OAuthToken = Invoke-RestMethod -Method POST -Uri https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/sts/v1.0/issueToken -Headers $FetchTokenHeader

# show the token received
$OAuthToken

Make sure that you use the same subscription key in your application or in the REST request as that is used above.

Verify the authorization token

This step is only needed, if you use authorization token for authentication. Run the following command to verify that the authorization token is still valid. The command makes a POST request to the service, and expects a response message from the service. If you still receive HTTP 403 Forbidden error, double-check the access token is set correctly and not expired.

Important

The token has an expiry of 10 minutes.

Note

Replace YOUR_AUDIO_FILE with the path to your prerecorded audio file, and YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN with the authorization token returned in the previous step.


$SpeechServiceURI =
'https://speech.platform.bing.com/speech/recognition/interactive/cognitiveservices/v1?language=en-us&format=detailed'

# $OAuthToken is the authrization token returned by the token service.
$RecoRequestHeader = @{
  'Authorization' = 'Bearer '+ $OAuthToken;
  'Transfer-Encoding' = 'chunked'
  'Content-type' = 'audio/wav; codec=audio/pcm; samplerate=16000'
}

# Read audio into byte array
$audioBytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("YOUR_AUDIO_FILE")

$RecoResponse = Invoke-RestMethod -Method POST -Uri $SpeechServiceURI -Headers $RecoRequestHeader -Body $audioBytes

# Show the result
$RecoResponse

Error HTTP 400 Bad Request

This reason is usually that the request body contains invalid audio data. Currently we only support WAV file.

Error HTTP 408 Request Timeout

The error is most likely because that no audio data is sent to the service and the service returns this error after timeout. For REST API, the audio data should be put in the request body.

The RecognitionStatus in the response is InitialSilenceTimeout

Audio data is usually the reason causing the issue. For example,

  • the audio has a long silence time at the beginning. The service will stop the recognition after some number of seconds and returns InitialSilenceTimeout.
  • the audio uses unsupported codec format, which makes the audio data be treated as silence.