如何从谷歌翻译下载文本到语音数据？

Question

I am trying to create an app that speaks Greek. But since Microsoft does not support Greek as a spoken language and my question on guidelines on how to create my own lexicon ( here ) I am asking this:

How may I download an mp3 (or just the data doesn't matter) that includes the text that I sent to google translate on runtime and play it using C#?

Answer 1

just use this link to download the MP3:

http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=el&q=%22hello%22

Edit: Be aware Some Browsers like Firefox replaces the %22 with " and the link doesnt work so you need to copy it and cant click it!

How to Download Files: http://www.csharp-examples.net/download-files/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ez801hhe.aspx

How to Play MP3: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4y171b18.aspx

using System.Media;

String strTextYouWantAsMp3 = "Hello";
WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
webClient.DownloadFile("http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=el&q=%22" + strTextYouWantAsMp3 + "%22", @"c:\audio.mp3");

SoundPlayer simpleSound = new SoundPlayer(@"c:\audio.mp3");
simpleSound.Play();

Answer 2

This link is now broken, you can refer to Chris Cirefice answer here: Google Text-To-Speech API

As suggested you will need to make a get request against the following URL http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=Hello%20World&client=t where q={your word you want to translate} and tl={your language}