HTML5 speech input and Google Translate text-to-speech, problem in Chrome

Question

I\'m creating a voice/text-memo web application. Here: http://gustavstromberg.se/sandbox/html5/localstorage/ look at its source (very short, most of it is css)

This is:

Answer 1

I tried hard Gustav, and this is what I found after a bit of research and testing.

It seems Chrome is having trouble streaming mp3 (the format google returns). The only solution I can imagine is getting the file (cURL?) to your server and then present it to the user. I assume when Google releases the official API, there will also be some sort of a format option.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=45152

http://www.trygve-lie.com/blog/entry/html_5_audio_element_and (yes, the play button is the same color as the background, funky)

Answer 2

It is because google restricts certain types of requests to prevent the service from being overloaded. So the audio file is not fetched when your browser tries to fetch it. Once you visit the translation link, the audio file is fetched and is cached which is why the playback works (provided the text-memo is same). This has been my observation but I'm not very sure.

When I used CURL to fetch the file, this is what I got in response:

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403. That’s an error.

Your client does not have permission to get URL /translate_tts?q=hello from this server.

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