Ruby

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

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

require 'chilkat'

success = false

# 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(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 = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
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 = Chilkat::CkBinData.new()
success = http.QuickGetBd(sbUrl.getAsString(),bdResponseBody)
if (success == false)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

respStatusCode = http.get_LastStatus()
print "response status code = " + respStatusCode.to_s() + "\n";

if (respStatusCode == 200)
    success = bdResponseBody.WriteFile("qa_output/lobster.wav")
    print "Success!" + "\n";
else
    print bdResponseBody.getString("utf-8") + "\n";
end