(PowerShell) IBM Cloud - Text to Speech - Synthesize Audio (GET)

Synthesizes text to audio that is spoken in the specified voice.

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

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

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

$http = New-Object Chilkat.Http

$http.Login = "apikey"
$http.Password = "my_apikey"
$http.BasicAuth = $true

# 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 = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$sbUrl.Append($myBaseUrl)
$sbUrl.Append("/v1/synthesize?accept=ACCEPT_TYPE&voice=CHOSEN_VOICE&text=TEXT_TO_SYNTHESIZE")

# Choose "audio/wav" for the output file type.
$numReplaced = $sbUrl.Replace("ACCEPT_TYPE",$http.UrlEncode("audio/wav"))
# See the choices for voices at https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/text-to-speech#synthesize-audio-get
$numReplaced = $sbUrl.Replace("CHOSEN_VOICE","en-US_MichaelVoice")
$textToSynthesize = "When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail."
$numReplaced = $sbUrl.Replace("TEXT_TO_SYNTHESIZE",$http.UrlEncode($textToSynthesize))

# Send the GET to synthesize the voice.
# The response file will be contained in bdResponseBody
$bdResponseBody = New-Object Chilkat.BinData
$success = $http.QuickGetBd($sbUrl.GetAsString(),$bdResponseBody)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($http.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$respStatusCode = $http.LastStatus
$("response status code = " + $respStatusCode)

if ($respStatusCode -eq 200) {
    $success = $bdResponseBody.WriteFile("qa_output/lobster.wav")
    $("Success!")
}
else {
    $($bdResponseBody.GetString("utf-8"))
}