Google Text To Speech (TTS)

[344Clinton]

I tried using google TTS service instead of Festival and found it doesn't work.
in Voice_Text.pm, the line containing:
my $ua_request = HTTP::Request->new('GET' => "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=$language&q=".qq[ $parms{text} ]);

contains a hard coded link, that is defunct. Google now requires a "Captcha".

The site "http://www.voicerss.org" allows one to register (FREE) for an API key and access Googles TTS service directly.

I updated the line as:
my $ua_request = HTTP::Request->new('GET' => "http://api.voicerss.org/?key=MY_API_KEY&hl=en-gb&f=48khz_16bit_stereo&src=".qq[ $parms{text} ]);

and it works.

However. The link should NOT be hardcoded as everyone knows, the web is always evolving. The link should be editable from the mh.privat.ini file as something like:

google_tts_url = "http://api.voicerss.org/?key=MY_API_KEY&hl=en-gb&f=48khz_16bit_stereo&src="

and then the code would be something like:
my $ua_request = HTTP::Request->new('GET' => $params{google_tts_url}.qq[ $parms{text} ]);

This way, as links change, the end user can modify them easily without trying to figure out where!