Google text to speech API not working on php - php

Question

//=======Text to Speech==================
function tts($sentence)
{
$fragment = array();
$tmp = explode(" ",$sentence);
$tmp_ = "";
$last_word = "";
foreach ($tmp as $value) {
$tmp_.= "$value ";
$last_word = $value;
if (strlen($tmp_) > 100) {
$last_tmp_.= "";
array_push($fragment, $last_tmp_);
$tmp_ = $last_word." ";
$last_tmp_ = "";
}
$last_tmp_ = $tmp_;
}
array_push($fragment, $last_tmp_);
foreach ($fragment as &$value)
{
$value = str_replace(" ","+",$value);
}
// $sentence = str_replace(" ","+",$sentence);
$name = 0;
foreach($fragment as $value)
{
$url = "https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=".$value;
if ($name == 0)
$fp = fopen("sound/combined.mp3","w");
else
$fp = fopen("sound/temp".$name.".mp3","w");
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
file_get_contents($url) or die("oops\n");
$name++;
}
$count = 1;
while ($count < $name)
{
file_put_contents('sound/combined.mp3',
file_get_contents('sound/combined.mp3') .
file_get_contents('sound/temp'.$count.'.mp3'));
$count++;
}
$count = 1;
while ($count < $name)
{
unlink("sound/temp".$count.".mp3");
$count++;
}
}
//=========IN=============
if($tts == 'in'){
tts($alias.'.');
$sound = '<embed src="database/sound/inbeep.mp3" width="0" height="0" ><embed src="database/sound/combined.mp3" width="0" height="0" >';
}
When i run the code I go to the error code "oops" which means it failed to create the file, it was working fine yesterday and i haven't changed anything within the code, i dont know if google is blocking the use of the API or something is wrong with my code.

Answer 1

You need to add the user agent string so you aren't told to be coming from CURL. Your code in the loop should be like this:
$url = "https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=".$value;
if ($name == 0)
$fp = fopen("sound/combined.mp3","w");
else
$fp = fopen("sound/temp".$name.".mp3","w");
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.93 Safari/537.36');
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);