Problem with adding a dropout layer, Layer spatial_dropout1d_5 was called with an input that isn't a symbolic tensor?

Question

So I am using GloVe word embeddings

emb = Glove(emb_filename)
word_embedding_layer = emb.get_keras_embedding(#dropout = 0.5,
                                            trainable = True,
                                            input_length = sent_maxlen, 
                                           name='word_embedding_layer')

I commented dropout since I got a warning that its no longer supported in Keras and I should use spatialDropout1d instead and that's what I did

word_embedding_layer = keras.layers.SpatialDropout1D(0.5)(word_embedding_layer)

However I am getting this error and I don't know how to fix my input to make it a tensor

 ValueError: Layer spatial_dropout1d_5 was called with an input that isn't a symbolic tensor. Received type: <class 'keras.layers.embeddings.Embedding'>. Full input: [<keras.layers.embeddings.Embedding object at 0x7f4a42989358>]. All inputs to the layer should be tensors.

Answer 1

word_embedding_layer is a layer.

You must give a "tensor" to the layers.

input_tensor = Input(some_shape)
embedding_tensor = word_embedding_layer(input_tensor)
dropout_output = keras.layers.SpatialDropout1D(0.5)(embedding_tensor)