Google Translate API text-to-speech: http requests forbidden
I am making a language learning web app that when you hover over the word, it pronounces it for you. I'd like to access the native speaker translations from Google Translate API.
I've found this resource which gives http://translate.google.com/translate_tts as the base URL and tl for target language and q for the query string.
This works awesome when I just access it in the browser, http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=zh-CN&q=你好, but any httprequests for my app return a 403 Forbidden error.
localhost:~ me$ wget "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=en&q=hello+world" --2015-06-02 11:02:06-- http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=en&q=hello+world Resolving translate.google.com... 173.194.123.38, 173.194.123.36, 173.194.123.32, ... Connecting to translate.google.com|173.194.123.38|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 2015-06-02 11:02:07 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
Is there a formal Google API for text-to-speech associated with their payment plans for traditional Google Translate API that I'm just not finding? Or is there a way to get and play this audio somehow?
Answer
You can get anything sound, I found it: https://translate.google.com.vn/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&q=ANYTHING_TEXT&tl=en&client=tw-ob Note: client=tw-ob