{"id":1053,"date":"2009-12-18T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T18:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2009-12-17T23:59:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T18:29:34","slug":"google-adds-text-to-speech-capability-to-its-translation-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/google-adds-text-to-speech-capability-to-its-translation-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Google adds Text to Speech capability to its translation service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While surfing the net I discovered that Google has a service that reads out text, converting it to speech so I tried it out and it works great, the voice doesn&#8217;t sound robotic at all like some of the other converters that are available today. The best part is that you can use it by passing it a sentence as part of a URL and it will return a mp3 file with the voice over.<\/p>\n<p>For example, visiting the following link will cause it to read out &#8220;Hello and welcome&#8221;: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/translate_tts?q=Hello+and+welcome\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/translate_tts?q=Hello+and+welcome<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Try it out. To have it read out a different text just change the text after &#8216;q=&#8217; with your own text, replacing the spaces in the sentence with a + sign. <\/p>\n<p>The only other Text To Speech service I have seen that does this good work is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.research.att.com\/~ttsweb\/tts\/demo.php\">AT&#038;T Labs Natural Voices<\/a> site. <\/p>\n<p>The advantage of the Google service is that it can be automated and can be used within scripts and other programs to generate natural sounding voice responses.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2009-12-15-n25.html\">blogoscoped.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While surfing the net I discovered that Google has a service that reads out text, converting it to speech so I tried it out and it works great, the voice doesn&#8217;t sound robotic at all like some of the other converters that are available today. The best part is that you can use it by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-sites","category-my-thoughts","category-techie-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}