http://simonwillison.net/2009-12-14T13:13:00+00:00Simon Willison2009-12-14T13:13:00+00:002009-12-14T13:13:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Dec/14/google/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://weston.ruter.net/projects/google-tts/"><p>Recently Google Translate announced the ability to hear translations into English spoken via text-to-speech (TTS). Looking at the Firebug Net panel for where this TTS data was coming from, I saw that the speech audio is in MP3 format and is queried via a simple HTTP GET (REST) request: http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=text</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://weston.ruter.net/projects/google-tts/">Weston Ruter</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google-translate">google-translate</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/text-to-speech">text-to-speech</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/translate">translate</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/weston-ruter">weston-ruter</a></p>