On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Stephen Wells <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all - I am currently trying to use wget to obtain mp3 files from the > Google Translate TTS system. In principle this can be done using: > > wget -U Mozilla -O "${string}.mp3" " > http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=TL&q=${string}"; > > ... > > http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=ru&q=%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C > > This of course produces a string of gibberish in the resulting mp3 file!
That URL is correct, it's what you'll see a browser send across the wire for the same string. Google is producing gibberish because of some User-agent sniffing that they appear to be doing. If you change the user agent to something that's more complete, like "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36" instead of just Mozilla, it should work correctly.
