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Android Text To Speech Service Stopped suddenly

This is my text to speech service part where I fetch my data and this was working fine and now I am getting this error "java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://ipv4.google.com/sorry/IndexRedirect?continue=http://translate.google.com/translate_tts%3Ftl%3Den-AU%26q%3Dhello%2Bhow%2Bare%2Byou%2Btoday%2B&q=CGMSBMpY7fgYhL_crQUiGQDxp4NL6gmQZhZKyI3fztC8pj7G18P2vhg" When I open the same on browser I am getting this and if I am writing the characters I am getting the required data.Is this a common issue or google has changed something please help enter image description here

                                // data
    {

        // Log.e("JUSTLOGGINGURL", text);
        text = URLEncoder.encode(text, "UTF-8");
        String voiceUrl = "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl="
                + lang_to + "&q=" + text;
        // Log.e("JUSTLOGGINGURL", voiceUrl);

        HttpURLConnection con = null;
        InputStream is = null;
        try {

            URL url = new URL(voiceUrl);
            con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            con.setRequestProperty(
                    "User-Agent",
                    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2");
//          con.setRequestProperty(
//                  "User-Agent",
//                  "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.0; Nexus 7 Build/KOT49H) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/30.0.0.0 Safari/537.36");
            con.setRequestMethod("GET");
            con.setDoInput(true);
            con.connect();
            is = con.getInputStream();

        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            is = null;
            return is;

        }
        return is;
Solution

  • You are clever ;)

    But you have to remember, when you use link from page source, it will change. Google just block you because you are making to much request or something like this.

    You have 3 solutions:

    1. Use Google Translate API and pay - Here you have Pricing.

    2. Use Another API which is FREE for Commercial use - Here you have some free API. But if you want more, you have to look around in Google.

    3. Use Build in TTS service which is in Android (TextToSpeech) - You have to know that it is little buggy.