TTS sketch not working, why?

Processing Libraries
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Hello this sketch dont working i want to write some text and spell it from google translator, do you have some working library or code for TTS ? text to speak ?

import java.net.*; 
File f;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
String sketchPath;
import ddf.minim.*;
AudioPlayer player;
Minim minim;
 
String s = "Type here";
 
void setup() {
  size(1280, 720);
  minim = new Minim(this);
  textAlign(CENTER, CENTER);
  textSize(50);
  stroke(255);
}
 
void draw() {
  background(0);
  text(s, 0, 0, width, height);
  if (player != null) {
    translate(0, 250);
    for(int i = 0; i < player.left.size()-1; i++) {
      line(i, 50 + player.left.get(i)*50, i+1, 50 + player.left.get(i+1)*50);
      line(i, 150 + player.right.get(i)*50, i+1, 150 + player.right.get(i+1)*50);
    }
  }
}
 
void keyPressed() {
  if (keyCode == BACKSPACE) {
    if (s.length() > 0) {
      s = s.substring(0, s.length()-1);
    }
  } else if (keyCode == DELETE) {
    s = "";
  } else if (keyCode == ENTER) {
    googleTTS(s, "en");
    if (player != null) { player.close(); }
    player = minim.loadFile(s + ".mp3", 2048);
    player.loop();
    s = "";
  } else if (keyCode != SHIFT && keyCode != CONTROL && keyCode != ALT && s.length() < 100) {
    s += key;
  }
}
 
void googleTTS(String txt, String language) {
  String u = "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=";
  u = u + language + "&q=" + txt;
  u = u.replace(" ", "%20");
  try {
    URL url = new URL(u);
    try {
      URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
      connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.2.30703)");
      connection.connect();
      InputStream is = connection.getInputStream();
      File f = new File(sketchPath + "/" + txt + ".mp3");
      OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(f);
      byte buf[] = new byte[1024];
      int len;
      while ((len = is.read(buf)) > 0) {
        out.write(buf, 0, len);
      }
      out.close();
      is.close();
      println("File created: " + txt + ".mp3");
    } catch (IOException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
  }
}
 
void stop() {
  player.close();
  minim.stop();
  super.stop();
}
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I might be wrong, but I do not think the translate offers tts, or not anymore I was browsing the google cloud platform, and you can try using the tts from GCP. However, before you attempt this route, you can explore the ttslib that you can find in the Contribution manager in the PDE. After you install this library, explore the examples that comes with it as it seems to do a good job.

If you still want to use google via GCP, you can follow this link

Cloud Text-To-Speech provides a daily amount of characters that you can convert into speech before it starts charging you. If you need more information, review the documentation in their site.

I also would like to suggest the following change to your code: u = u.replace(" ", "%20"); could be instead, be done by using String urlEncoded= urlEncoder(u); This function is a static function and it comes with Processing. Also notice you only need to encode the parameters of your query.

Kf

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