Google Text to Speech API

google_text2speech.md

Google Text to Speech API

Base URL: http://translate.google.com/translate_tts
It converts written words into audio. It accepts GET requests.

GET

q
The query string to convert to audio

tl
Translation language, for example, ar for Arabic, or en-us for English

ie
Encoding format, use default UTF-8

Examples

This is an example for Arabic "السلام عليكم"

http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&q=%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%20%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%85&tl=ar

This is an example for English "Hello World"

http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&q=Hello%20World&tl=en-us

Sometime recently I exceeded some undocumented limit and no longer get anything via CLI. If I enter the URL into a browser I get sent to a captcha, after which it works. Anybody seen this and have a suggestion of how to proceed?

@HealingTek, append &client=t to your URL and make sure your CLI client has a browser User-Agent string (e.g. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0) (see https://gist.github.com/alotaiba/1728771#gistcomment-1546762).

This is cool!

Great! The world is now smaller and friendlier. :)

Hi Guys ,
I am ok taking a paid service, but tis there a way i can change the voice, I may possibly need a male voice and with different accents . Does the API has this service ?

All this works appending to avoid seeing the captcha: Mozilla/5.0 and &client=t. However, Google will still throttle use of the API if it notices "unusual activity" from a client IP. I tried it and sometimes would work and sometimes would not as Google would throttle/disable from the client url. If there any way around this?

Today this is not working anymore.

wget -q -U Mozilla -O output.mp3 "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&total=1&idx=0&textlen=32&client=tw-ob&q=Test&tl=En-gb"

Works

Thanks @oaeide it works for me (obviously the example in the md article is no longer valid...)
It's quite a confusion for me that why Google does not provide a clear doc for this API about each argument? It's disappointed that we have to guess how to use it properly...

I have error 403.
Negated access. How I can fix it?

I´ve made a helper to .net... check it out in my git hub... but to play in your app you'll need add references from windows media player.

Thanks @oaeide it works for me. 👍

How it would be possible to have that service offline?, the input text to an mp3 file ?

Thanks you @oaeide it works for me too.

How to use this api for persian language ?

Thanks @oaeide it works for me too.

if someone still need it.
https://github.com/AlboVieira/google-speech-tts

Thanks @oaeide it works for me

You need to add &client=tw-ob to make it work.

http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=addressed&client=tw-ob

hi, i dont use it in android device, how can fix it ?

Thank you @rcarubbi for providing .NET helper class

The code with wget works fine. Does anyone know how to force male voice instead of female? Thank you.

How to use this api for Vietnamese language ? Plz ! Tks

tag language : https://cloud.google.com/speech/docs/languages

Thanks @Smile4ever

It now returns a 503 ERROR

This works indeed: wget -q -U Mozilla -O output.mp3 "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&total=1&idx=0&textlen=32&client=tw-ob&q=Test&tl=En-gb"

i got 404 error. Although I'm just using hardly 10 characters. still it is not working.

I'm trying to get text-speech into my react app ,I've found this example [https://codesandbox.io/s/1ggs6] ,it worked fine with chrome and edge,otherwise on Firefox it can't read more than 2 languages US-english ,I just want the german language.
Any idea on how to fix it ?

tl=en
If it is not lowercase it fails for me

I created a Python package for this purpose. You can find it here:
https://gitlab.com/labsoft-ai/google-translate-tts