Using Google Text to Speech with FreeSWITCH

Google Translate can be used as a  text-to-speech converter, providing a handy MP3 file of your chosen words. It's not an official offering, but Google Translate provides you the spoken version of your translation. There’s no official API for the text-to-speech service yet, but people around the web have figured out a way on using it.

One can get the speech audio as an MP3 file via a simple HTTP GET (REST) request:

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