Text To Speech Using Voice RSS API

RSS Feeds are well known in the internet world. The new Voice RSS service brings the Speech Synthesis to a new level, where one can get the benefit of this feature with its Cloud Based Solution [SaaS] which requires no installation, no dependency on the technology, fast and accessible at all times.

Voice RSS exposes the Web Service / API to convert the given text into speech. 
Follow the below steps.

Step 1:

In order to use this service one has to get the API key from the voicerss.org website.

Register & get the Key from the below link.

          Get API Key

Step 2:

Create a Java Project in eclipse & there are no extra dependencies to be added.

Step 3:

Create a java class by name 'TextToSpeech' and a method by name 'speak'

Add the below code in 'speak' and the same in 'main'.

String speakText = "Voice RSS TTS API Test";

String APIKey = "*****getyourapifromstep1***";

byte[] stream;

//Form the URL with required information

URL url = new URL("http://api.voicerss.org/?" + "key="

    + URLEncoder.encode(APIKey, "UTF-8") + "&src="

    + URLEncoder.encode(speakText, "UTF-8") + "&hl="

    + URLEncoder.encode("en-us", "UTF-8") + "&f="

    + URLEncoder.encode("44khz_16bit_mono", "UTF-8"));

InputStream inps = new BufferedInputStream(url.openStream());

ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];

int i = 0;

while (-1 != (i = inps.read(buffer))) {

     out.write(buffer, 0, i);

}

out.close();

inps.close();

stream = out.toByteArray();

//Save the stream into audio file

FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("C:/TEST/testAudio.mp3");

fos.write(stream);

fos.close();

References:

http://www.voicerss.org/

https://community.perfectomobile.com/posts/1126665-about-mobile-text-to-speech