Google tts api giving me blank mp3

Question

I'm trying to use google text-to-speech but the service not giving me. I'm using this url to get mp3 : http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=utf-8&tl=en&q={$text}

Service return the error : our client does not have permission to get URL. How can I fix this ?

Answer 1

Using cURL will avoid some checks:

<?php
    header("Content-Type: audio/mpeg");

    $text = urlencode('my text');
    $url = "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=utf-8&tl=en&q=".$text;
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1)");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
    $return = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    echo $return;
?>