[Freeswitch-users] Is Anyone Using Google TTS?

[Nicolas Brenner]

Be careful about the legal implications of using Google's TTS in your
system. There are a few discussions on Google Groups (e.g.
http://goo.gl/TvRVR) about the possibility of using Google's TTS for
applications other than just Google Translate on the web, and there's a
Google employee (DeWitt) saying that there are no Terms of Service (ToS),
nor an official API for their TTS system, so that you should abide by their
general ToS, and that "[TTS wasn't] designed for internal usage only, will
likely change or break over time, and thus shouldn't be accessed by external
developers"



On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Madovsky <infos at madovsky.org> wrote:

>  they will do if overload occurs
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org>
> *To:* FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 17, 2011 12:55 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] Is Anyone Using Google TTS?
>
> I have to wonder if Google thinks 10-20 lookups per second from a single
> client is a "light/medium" load. That's 36K - 72K lookups per hour. If I
> were you I would tcpdump the traffic and see what Google is "really" sending
> back. I doubt that Google cares about the distinction between a browser and
> other types of clients.
>
> -MC
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:19 PM, A E [Gmail] <all.eforums at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Gabriel Gunderson <gabe at gundy.org>wrote:
>>
>>>  On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Avi Marcus <avi at avimarcus.net> wrote:
>>> > I've tried this cool formula for streaming TTS via google:
>>> > http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/TTS
>>> > and while the link produces a pretty darn nice sounding MP3, I get:
>>> > 2011-05-03 01:16:47.828769 [ERR] mod_shout.c:804 Error: MPG123 Error at
>>> > /usr/src/freeswitch/src/mod/formats/mod_shout/mod_shout.c:627.
>>> > 2011-05-03 01:16:47.828769 [ERR] mod_shout.c:807 Error from mpg123:
>>> Invalid
>>> > mpg123 handle. (code 10)
>>> > Is anyone else using this reliably?
>>>
>>> Yes, I too can confirm that others are using this reliably.
>>>
>>> What more can you tell us about your problem?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Gabe
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>
>> Just wanted to find out when you say "reliably" is this being used in
>> production on a relatively small/medium load, like maybe 10-20
>> look-ups/translations per second? The last I checked (about 4-5 mths ago)
>> after about 10 or so (can't remember the exact number) Google throws out a
>> Captcha as a challenge. Now, that could also be since I was doing this over
>> a web-browser. Does it change or doesn't have that limitation when using
>> mod_shout in freeswitch?
>>
>> Thanks so much
>>
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