synth_trans.md

synthesis-service. and translate-service. APIs

These retrieve the speech synthesis and translation results for their respective extensions.

https://translate-service.scratch.mit.edu/

GET /translate?language=<locale>&text=<text>

Retrieves the translation of the input text in the given language. locale is generally a two-letter language code. Refer to this gist for a list of supported languages, or check the exports from scratch-translate-extension-languages.

Uses Google Translate as of Dec. 9, 2019.

GET https://translate-service.scratch.mit.edu/supported

Retrieves a list of supported language codes for translating text.

Legacy endpoint - still online, but no longer used.

https://synthesis-service.scratch.mit.edu/

GET /synth?locale=<speech locale>&gender=<gender>&text=<text>

Retrieves the synthesis of the input text as an audio file. gender is either "male" or "female"; speech locale is a "speech synth locale" as described in the extension's source code.

Likely uses Amazon Polly.