text-to-speech "api"

[roman]

hello,

first of all, excuse me if i have subscribed to the wrong but i was following this tutorial http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys

my issue is that i was trying to use "Speech API" (text to speech) which can be manually called via this link http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=utf-8&tl=en&q=hello
however, there is absolutely no documentation and all the older links are dead or obsolete

the issue is that the "api" works, however after a few requests i got this catcha message that i have attached to this post.
i did not know there is a restriction on the text to speech api and i cannot find any pricing/billing plan for the text to speech api

is there any at all? or could i just buy the translate api 20$-per-million-characters bundle and append the &key=[key] parameter, but would that even do anything?
i am trying to create a server side application and wouldn't like it to crash because of the captcha

[Stuart Morgan]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:26 AM, roman <counte...@gmail.com> wrote:

i cannot find any pricing/billing plan for the text to speech api

The section called "Getting Keys for Your Chromium Derivative" at the bottom of the page you linked to clearly answers your question (as do many previous emails to this list if you search the archive).

-Stuart

[Dominic Mazzoni]

my issue is that i was trying to use "Speech API" (text to speech) which can be manually called via this link http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=utf-8&tl=en&q=hello
however, there is absolutely no documentation and all the older links are dead or obsolete

That is not an official API, it's an internal API used by Google Translate. That's why you get a captcha if you try to send more than a few queries to it.

Google does not have a public API for either speech recognition or speech synthesis, sorry. The API key allows you to use them within your own build of Chromium, not for some other application. If you choose to try to use them anyway, you do so at your own risk.

is there any at all? or could i just buy the translate api 20$-per-million-characters bundle and append the &key=[key] parameter, but would that even do anything?

Nope, that API is for translate, not for speech.

Google isn't in the speech API business, but there are several other companies that are. Consider Acapela, Nuance, Ivona, etc.

[bharath kumar]

am facing speach api key problem please help me