Playing remote audio (from Google Translate) in HTML5 on a server

Question

I\'m trying to use text-to-speech on a website using HTML5 and Google Translate.

Getting speech from Google is as easy as a GET request to: http://translate.google.c

Answer 1

Make sure your rel tags are set up correctly. There's a possibility that Google has a cross domain protection.

Answer 2

NodeJS equivalent for accepted answer (formulated in comments) is:

app.route("/api/tts").get(function(req,res){
      res.type('audio/mpeg');

      var text = req.query.q;
      var request = require('request');
      var url = "https://translate.google.pl/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&q=" + text + "&tl=en&total=1&idx=0&client=t&prev=input";
      request.get(url).pipe(res);
  });

Client should send url-encoded text as a query param q, e.g. host/api/tts?q=Hello