Cloud Text-to-Speech API C++ Client Library

An idiomatic C++ client library for the Cloud Text-to-Speech API, a service to synthesize natural-sounding speech by applying powerful neural network models.

While this library is GA, please note Google Cloud C++ client libraries do not follow Semantic Versioning.

Quickstart

The following shows the code that you'll run in the google/cloud/texttospeech/quickstart/ directory, which should give you a taste of the Cloud Text-to-Speech API C++ client library API.

#include "google/cloud/texttospeech/v1/text_to_speech_client.h"
#include <iostream>

auto constexpr kText = R"""(
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created equal.)""";

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) try {
  if (argc != 1) {
    std::cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << "\n";
    return 1;
  }

  namespace texttospeech = ::google::cloud::texttospeech_v1;
  auto client = texttospeech::TextToSpeechClient(
      texttospeech::MakeTextToSpeechConnection());

  google::cloud::texttospeech::v1::SynthesisInput input;
  input.set_text(kText);
  google::cloud::texttospeech::v1::VoiceSelectionParams voice;
  voice.set_language_code("en-US");
  google::cloud::texttospeech::v1::AudioConfig audio;
  audio.set_audio_encoding(google::cloud::texttospeech::v1::LINEAR16);

  auto response = client.SynthesizeSpeech(input, voice, audio);
  if (!response) throw std::move(response).status();
  // Normally one would play the results (response->audio_content()) over some
  // audio device. For this quickstart, we just print some information.
  auto constexpr kWavHeaderSize = 48;
  auto constexpr kBytesPerSample = 2;  // we asked for LINEAR16
  auto const sample_count =
      (response->audio_content().size() - kWavHeaderSize) / kBytesPerSample;
  std::cout << "The audio has " << sample_count << " samples\n";

  return 0;
} catch (google::cloud::Status const& status) {
  std::cerr << "google::cloud::Status thrown: " << status << "\n";
  return 1;
}

Main classes

The main class in this library is texttospeech_v1::TextToSpeechClient. All RPCs are exposed as member functions of this class. Other classes provide helpers, configuration parameters, and infrastructure to mock texttospeech_v1::TextToSpeechClient when testing your application.

Retry, Backoff, and Idempotency Policies.

The library automatically retries requests that fail with transient errors, and uses exponential backoff to backoff between retries. Application developers can override the default policies.

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