Sample NDev TTS application.

ndev_tts.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#vim: set fileencoding=utf8


"""
This example depends on the `requests` library
http://requests.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

    $ pip install requests

"""


from __future__ import print_function

import random
import requests
import time


APP_ID = ""
APP_KEY = ""


def main():
    headers = {
        'Accept': "audio/x-wav;codec=pcm;bit=16;rate=22000",
        'Content-Type': "text/plain",
    }

    params = {
        'appId': APP_ID,
        'appKey': APP_KEY,
        'id': "d872Oki9",
        'ttsLang': "en_US",
        'voice': "Samantha",
    }

    session = requests.session()
    session.headers.update(headers)
    session.params = params

    url = "https://tts.nuancemobility.net/NMDPTTSCmdServlet/tts"
    text = "This is test {}.".format(random.randint(0, 10000))

    for i in xrange(0, 100):
        print("Attempt {0}... ".format(i + 1), end="")

        t0 = time.time()
        r = session.post(url, data=text)
        t1 = time.time()

        print("{} ({}s)".format(r.status_code, round(t1 - t0, 2)))
        r.raise_for_status()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()