Renaldi Adrian

This Laravel code shows how to interact/hit to a microservice that uses the Google Text-to-Speech API. The microservice code can be found here: Create Text-to-Speech with Google’s AI Using Python.

While the microservice itself can actually simply hit with CURL, here’s a use case if you use Laravel and want to hit the microservice, I’m sharing this because this is my real use case too, I hope it can help you.

Here is the code:

        try {
            Log::debug('Creating text to speech...');
            
            // Get the TTS API IP Address from the config
            $ttsIPAddress = Config::get('constants.API_TTS_IP_ADDRESS_PRIVATE');
        
            // Define the API endpoint (add the endpoint path if necessary)
            $url = $ttsIPAddress . '/convert';
        
            // Initialize cURL session
            $ch = curl_init($url);
        
            // Set the cURL options
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
        
            // Execute cURL and get the response
            $response = curl_exec($ch);
        
            // Check for errors
            if ($response === false) {
                throw new \Exception('Error during cURL request: ' . curl_error($ch));
            }
            Log::debug("Genearting success, response: ");
            Log::debug($response);
            // Close cURL session
            curl_close($ch);
        
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            // Optionally log the error or handle it as needed
            Log::error('Error hitting text to speech API: ');
            Log::error($e->getMessage());
            // do nothing or handle the error gracefully
        }

Feel free to ask any questions or let me know if you encounter any issues using it.I’ll try to help as much as possible.