(Classic ASP) IBM Cloud - Text to Speech - Synthesize Audio (POST)

Synthesizes text to audio that is spoken in the specified voice. Uses a POST which allows for more text to be synthesized.

For more information, see https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/text-to-speech#synthesize-audio

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ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

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' This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Http")
set http = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")

http.Login = "apikey"
http.Password = "my_apikey"
http.BasicAuth = 1

' Send the following request:

' curl -X POST -u "apikey:{apikey}" 
'    --header "Content-Type: application/json" 
'    --header "Accept: audio/wav" 
'    --data "{\"text\":\"When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.\"}" 
'    --output lobster.wav "{url}/v1/synthesize?voice=en-US_AllisonV3Voice"

' Use your base URL shown in the credentials web page (below your apikey)
myBaseUrl = "https://api.us-south.text-to-speech.watson.cloud.ibm.com/instances/31941e96-7b89-4d56-8993-9cd8f18ec2d8"

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder")
set sbUrl = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbUrl.Append(myBaseUrl)
success = sbUrl.Append("/v1/synthesize?voice=en-US_AllisonV3Voice")

http.Accept = "audio/wav"

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject")
set json = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = json.UpdateString("text","When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.")

' resp is a Chilkat.HttpResponse
Set resp = http.PostJson3(sbUrl.GetAsString(),"application/json",json)
If (http.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( http.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

respStatusCode = resp.StatusCode
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response status code = " & respStatusCode) & "</pre>"

If (respStatusCode = 200) Then
    success = resp.SaveBodyBinary("qa_output/lobster.wav")
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Success!") & "</pre>"
Else
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( resp.BodyStr) & "</pre>"
End If


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