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

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

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

$http = chilkat::CkHttp->new();

$http->put_Login("apikey");
$http->put_Password("my_apikey");
$http->put_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";

$sbUrl = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$sbUrl->Append($myBaseUrl);
$sbUrl->Append("/v1/synthesize?voice=en-US_AllisonV3Voice");

$http->put_Accept("audio/wav");

$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$json->UpdateString("text","When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.");

$url = $sbUrl->getAsString();
$resp = chilkat::CkHttpResponse->new();
$success = $http->HttpJson("POST",$url,$json,"application/json",$resp);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$respStatusCode = $resp->get_StatusCode();
print "response status code = " . $respStatusCode . "\r\n";

if ($respStatusCode == 200) {
    $success = $resp->SaveBodyBinary("qa_output/lobster.wav");
    print "Success!" . "\r\n";
}
else {
    print $resp->bodyStr() . "\r\n";
}