Script that synthesizes EasyApple intros with Azure's text-to-speech APIs

azure-text-to-speech.py

import requests

def getToken():
    req = requests.post("https://westeurope.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/sts/v1.0/issuetoken",
        headers={"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key": "YOUR_AZURE_API_KEY_HERE"},
    )

    return req.text
    
def textToMp3(text, voice="it-IT-ElsaNeural"):
    headers = {
        "Authorization": f"Bearer: {getToken()}",
        "Content-Type": "application/ssml+xml",
        "X-Microsoft-OutputFormat": "audio-24khz-160kbitrate-mono-mp3",
        "User-Agent": "IntroEasyApple Python 0.1"
    }
    req = requests.post("https://westeurope.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1",
        headers=headers,
        data=f"""<speak version='1.0' xml:lang='it-IT'><voice xml:lang='it-iT' xml:gender='Female'
    name='it-IT-ElsaNeural'>
        {text}
</voice></speak>"""
    )

    return req.content

def getLastEpisodeNumber(show="easyapple"):
    req = requests.get(f"https://www.easypodcast.it/api/v1/show/{show}/lastEpisode")
    response = req.json()

    return int(response['episode']['episode_number'])

def getNextEpisodeNumber(show="easyapple"):
    return getLastEpisodeNumber(show) + 1

next_episode_number = getNextEpisodeNumber()
donatori = "Luca Z., Federico F." # ultimi_donatori.main() # This is the actual function you don't have access to...

print(f"Prepring intro for episode {next_episode_number}…")

with open(f"/Users/luca/Downloads/intro-{next_episode_number}.mp3", "wb") as f:
    testo = f"Benvenuti alla puntata {next_episode_number} di EasyApple. "
    if donatori != 'Nessuno, purtroppo':
        testo += f"Questa puntata è stata resa possibile dalle donazioni di {donatori}. "
    
    testo += "E ora la parola ai conduttori, Luca Zorzi e Federico Travaini."

    f.write(textToMp3(testo))

print("Done.")