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

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