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This is a deprecated Watson Text to Speech Service Demo. A link to the newly supported demo is below
https://www.ibm.com/demos/live/tts-demo/self-service/
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Support for MP3 output #11

Closed chubbard closed 9 years ago

chubbard commented 9 years ago

Add support for MP3 output (doesn't have to be streamed). Currently greatest support for audio support in HTML is through MP3. Ogg is only supported by a few browsers. If we had MP3 support it would be easier to use this service in our product.

daniel-bolanos commented 9 years ago

Yes, you are right, there are other users demanding that. I will check...

daniel-bolanos commented 9 years ago

Hello Chubbard, unfortunately, because of licensing issues, there are no plans to release support for mp3 in the TTS service. It is not ideal but you might want to take a look at doing the conversion yourself. On the server side it is easy with ffmpeg, on the client side with javascript you could try something like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17457029/converting-wav-to-any-compressed-audio-format-in-client-side-javascript

please keep us posted on your progress

chubbard commented 9 years ago

Ok I felt like this was the case. And converting it myself was my workaround to this issue. Thanks.

daniel-bolanos commented 9 years ago

good, please let us know what conversion approach works best for you. I suspect other developers are going to run into the same issue.

thank you

doctoratlantis commented 7 years ago

Is the licensing issue still valid? I had read that most all .mp3 patents expired in the US as of April 2017? Seems like .mp3 output would be a big boost for the widespread use of the output.

playground commented 7 years ago

Is .mp3 output supported?

germanattanasio commented 7 years ago

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