Pass text to the Text-to-Speech API

Demonstrates how to pass text to the Text-to-Speech API to synthesize audio.

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For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

• Chirp 3: HD voices
• Create voice audio files

Code sample

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for Cloud TTS, see Cloud TTS client libraries. For more information, see the Cloud TTS Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud TTS, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

// SynthesizeText synthesizes plain text and saves the output to outputFile.
func SynthesizeText(w io.Writer, text, outputFile string) error {
	ctx := context.Background()

	client, err := texttospeech.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer client.Close()

	req := texttospeechpb.SynthesizeSpeechRequest{
		Input: &texttospeechpb.SynthesisInput{
			InputSource: &texttospeechpb.SynthesisInput_Text{Text: text},
		},
		// Note: the voice can also be specified by name.
		// Names of voices can be retrieved with client.ListVoices().
		Voice: &texttospeechpb.VoiceSelectionParams{
			LanguageCode: "en-US",
			SsmlGender:   texttospeechpb.SsmlVoiceGender_FEMALE,
		},
		AudioConfig: &texttospeechpb.AudioConfig{
			AudioEncoding: texttospeechpb.AudioEncoding_MP3,
		},
	}

	resp, err := client.SynthesizeSpeech(ctx, &req)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	err = os.WriteFile(outputFile, resp.AudioContent, 0644)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Audio content written to file: %v\n", outputFile)
	return nil
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for Cloud TTS, see Cloud TTS client libraries. For more information, see the Cloud TTS Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud TTS, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

/**
 * Demonstrates using the Text to Speech client to synthesize text or ssml.
 *
 * @param text the raw text to be synthesized. (e.g., "Hello there!")
 * @throws Exception on TextToSpeechClient Errors.
 */
public static ByteString synthesizeText(String text) throws Exception {
  // Instantiates a client
  try (TextToSpeechClient textToSpeechClient = TextToSpeechClient.create()) {
    // Set the text input to be synthesized
    SynthesisInput input = SynthesisInput.newBuilder().setText(text).build();

    // Build the voice request
    VoiceSelectionParams voice =
        VoiceSelectionParams.newBuilder()
            .setLanguageCode("en-US") // languageCode = "en_us"
            .setSsmlGender(SsmlVoiceGender.FEMALE) // ssmlVoiceGender = SsmlVoiceGender.FEMALE
            .build();

    // Select the type of audio file you want returned
    AudioConfig audioConfig =
        AudioConfig.newBuilder()
            .setAudioEncoding(AudioEncoding.MP3) // MP3 audio.
            .build();

    // Perform the text-to-speech request
    SynthesizeSpeechResponse response =
        textToSpeechClient.synthesizeSpeech(input, voice, audioConfig);

    // Get the audio contents from the response
    ByteString audioContents = response.getAudioContent();

    // Write the response to the output file.
    try (OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("output.mp3")) {
      out.write(audioContents.toByteArray());
      System.out.println("Audio content written to file \"output.mp3\"");
      return audioContents;
    }
  }
}

Node.js

To learn how to install and use the client library for Cloud TTS, see Cloud TTS client libraries. For more information, see the Cloud TTS Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud TTS, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

const textToSpeech = require('@google-cloud/text-to-speech');
const fs = require('fs');
const util = require('util');

const client = new textToSpeech.TextToSpeechClient();

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// const text = 'Text to synthesize, eg. hello';
// const outputFile = 'Local path to save audio file to, e.g. output.mp3';

const request = {
  input: {text: text},
  voice: {languageCode: 'en-US', ssmlGender: 'FEMALE'},
  audioConfig: {audioEncoding: 'MP3'},
};
const [response] = await client.synthesizeSpeech(request);
const writeFile = util.promisify(fs.writeFile);
await writeFile(outputFile, response.audioContent, 'binary');
console.log(`Audio content written to file: ${outputFile}`);

PHP

To learn how to install and use the client library for Cloud TTS, see Cloud TTS client libraries.

To authenticate to Cloud TTS, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

use Google\Cloud\TextToSpeech\V1\AudioConfig;
use Google\Cloud\TextToSpeech\V1\AudioEncoding;
use Google\Cloud\TextToSpeech\V1\Client\TextToSpeechClient;
use Google\Cloud\TextToSpeech\V1\SsmlVoiceGender;
use Google\Cloud\TextToSpeech\V1\SynthesisInput;
use Google\Cloud\TextToSpeech\V1\SynthesizeSpeechRequest;
use Google\Cloud\TextToSpeech\V1\VoiceSelectionParams;

/**
 * @param string $text Text to synthesize
 */
function synthesize_text(string $text): void
{
    // create client object
    $client = new TextToSpeechClient();

    $input_text = (new SynthesisInput())
        ->setText($text);

    // note: the voice can also be specified by name
    // names of voices can be retrieved with $client->listVoices()
    $voice = (new VoiceSelectionParams())
        ->setLanguageCode('en-US')
        ->setSsmlGender(SsmlVoiceGender::FEMALE);

    $audioConfig = (new AudioConfig())
        ->setAudioEncoding(AudioEncoding::MP3);
    $request = (new SynthesizeSpeechRequest())
        ->setInput($input_text)
        ->setVoice($voice)
        ->setAudioConfig($audioConfig);

    $response = $client->synthesizeSpeech($request);
    $audioContent = $response->getAudioContent();

    file_put_contents('output.mp3', $audioContent);
    print('Audio content written to "output.mp3"' . PHP_EOL);

    $client->close();
}

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for Cloud TTS, see Cloud TTS client libraries. For more information, see the Cloud TTS Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud TTS, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

def synthesize_text():
    """Synthesizes speech from the input string of text."""
    from google.cloud import texttospeech

    text = "Hello there."
    client = texttospeech.TextToSpeechClient()

    input_text = texttospeech.SynthesisInput(text=text)

    # Note: the voice can also be specified by name.
    # Names of voices can be retrieved with client.list_voices().
    voice = texttospeech.VoiceSelectionParams(
        language_code="en-US",
        name="en-US-Chirp3-HD-Charon",
    )

    audio_config = texttospeech.AudioConfig(
        audio_encoding=texttospeech.AudioEncoding.MP3
    )

    response = client.synthesize_speech(
        input=input_text,
        voice=voice,
        audio_config=audio_config,
    )

    # The response's audio_content is binary.
    with open("output.mp3", "wb") as out:
        out.write(response.audio_content)
        print('Audio content written to file "output.mp3"')

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