bullet The Unofficial Google Text to Speech API

Yesterday TechCrunch published an article noting that an “unofficial” google text-to-speech API had been exposed. Naturally, I jumped right on top of playing around with it. Here’s a simple little Flex application that will plug you directly into the text-to-speech API.

Update #1: Apparently translate.google.com doesn’t have a valid cross-domain policy file, so unfortunately this app won’t work through my blog. I have, however, made the source available for download so all of you crafty devs can play with it anyway.

Update #2: Apparently a policy file has been created! Now the application works! The source is still available for download.

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Published: 12.16.09 :: 3 Comments »
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Brandon said...

Wonderful post , You’ve hit the mark with this, I just don’t think that people quite get what you’re saying. I don’t know how many individuals I’ve talked to concerning this very thing in the past week, and they just don’t grasp it.

I happened upon this blog by searching on google. I’m quite happy I found it!

Excellent post!

Published: January 4, 2010 at 3:25 pm
al said...

hi, thx, but the download didn’t work, could you post the source, I was able to get this to work in Flash 9 but not AIR so wondering if its a cross domain policy thing? thx

Published: May 14, 2010 at 1:04 am
Ian Ford said...

Al, thanks for catching that. I recently messed around with my server’s file structure and forgot to go back and fix these links.

They should be good now.

Published: May 14, 2010 at 10:45 am
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