Are there speech synthesis tools available for PHP, similar to those for C#?

There are speech synthesis tools available for PHP that allow developers to convert text into spoken words. One popular tool is the Google Text-to-Speech API, which can be used to generate speech from text in PHP applications. By utilizing this API, developers can easily incorporate speech synthesis functionality into their PHP projects. 

```php
<?php
$text = "Hello, this is a test.";
$url = "https://texttospeech.googleapis.com/v1/text:synthesize?key=YOUR_API_KEY";

$data = [
    'input' => [
        'text' => $text
    ],
    'voice' => [
        'languageCode' => 'en-US',
        'name' => 'en-US-Wavenet-D',
        'ssmlGender' => 'FEMALE'
    ],
    'audioConfig' => [
        'audioEncoding' => 'MP3'
    ]
];

$options = [
    'http' => [
        'header' => "Content-Type: application/json\r\n",
        'method' => 'POST',
        'content' => json_encode($data)
    ]
];

$context = stream_context_create($options);
$response = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
file_put_contents('output.mp3', $response);
```

In this code snippet, we send a POST request to the Google Text-to-Speech API with the desired text to be synthesized. The API response, which contains the synthesized speech audio, is saved as an MP3 file named 'output.mp3'. Developers can then use this audio file as needed in their PHP applications.

Keywords

PHP speech synthesis tools C# libraries

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