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https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/3773324
I wanted a small, reusable Wolfram Language function that could call a speech API, decode the returned PCM data, and produce an `Audio` object without writing an intermediate file. The example below uses a [text to speech](https://flowspeech.io/) service with a JSON API, but the same pattern applies to any endpoint that returns base64-encoded linear PCM.
## Request and response shape
The request sends text, the original text, and one or more voice assignments. Authentication is a Bearer token. The response is JSON rather than an MP3 download; its `data` object contains `audioBase64`, `mimeType`, `sampleRate`, `numChannels`, and `bitsPerSample`.
A minimal request body looks like this:
```
<|
"text" -> "Welcome. This sentence was generated from Wolfram Language.",
"originalText" -> "Welcome. This sentence was generated from Wolfram Language.",
"speakers" -> {<|"voiceName" -> "Kore"|>}
|>
```
## A reusable Wolfram Language function
Store the API key in the `FLOWSPEECH_API_KEY` environment variable before starting the kernel. Keeping it outside the notebook prevents an accidental credential leak when the notebook is shared.
```
ClearAll[flowSpeechAudio];
flowSpeechAudio[text_String, voice_String : "Kore"] := Module[
{apiKey, endpoint, payload, response, json, data, bytes, unsigned, signed},
apiKey = Environment["FLOWSPEECH_API_KEY"];
If[! StringQ[apiKey] || StringLength[apiKey] == 0,
Return @ Failure[
"MissingAPIKey",
<|"MessageTemplate" ->
"Set the FLOWSPEECH_API_KEY environment variable before calling the function."|>
]
];
endpoint = URLBuild @ <|
"Scheme" -> "https",
"Domain" -> "flowspeech.io",
"Path" -> {"api", "ai", "text-to-speech"}
|>;
payload = <|
"text" -> text,
"originalText" -> text,
"speakers" -> {<|"voiceName" -> voice|>}
|>;
response = URLRead @ HTTPRequest[
endpoint,
<|
Method -> "POST",
"Headers" -> {
"Authorization" -> "Bearer " <> apiKey,
"Accept" -> "application/json",
"Content-Type" -> "application/json"
},
"Body" -> ExportString[payload, "RawJSON"]
|>
];
If[response["StatusCode"] =!= 200,
Return @ Failure[
"HTTPError",
<|
"StatusCode" -> response["StatusCode"],
"ResponseBody" -> response["Body"]
|>
]
];
json = ImportString[response["Body"], "RawJSON"];
If[Lookup[json, "code", -1] =!= 0,
Return @ Failure[
"APIError",
<|"Response" -> json|>
]
];
data = json["data"];
If[data["bitsPerSample"] =!= 16 || data["numChannels"] =!= 1,
Return @ Failure[
"UnsupportedAudioFormat",
<|
"BitsPerSample" -> data["bitsPerSample"],
"Channels" -> data["numChannels"]
|>
]
];
(* audio/L16 uses signed 16-bit samples in network byte order. *)
bytes = Normal @ BaseDecode[data["audioBase64"]];
unsigned = FromDigits[#, 256] & /@ Partition[bytes, 2];
signed = Replace[unsigned, n_ /; n >= 32768 :> n - 65536, {1}];
Audio[
N[signed/32768.0],
SampleRate -> data["sampleRate"]
]
]
```
Calling the function returns an `Audio` object that can be played, plotted, analyzed, or exported like any other Wolfram Language audio expression:
```
audio = flowSpeechAudio[
"Read the first sentence calmly. Then add more energy to the second sentence.",
"Kore"
];
AudioPlot[audio]
Export["flowspeech-demo.wav", audio]
```
## Why decode from the response metadata?
It is tempting to assume that every speech endpoint returns an MP3 or WAV file. That assumption makes integrations fragile. Here the declared MIME type is `audio/L16`, so the code:
1. decodes the base64 payload,
2. groups bytes into 16-bit big-endian samples,
3. converts unsigned values above 32767 to signed integers,
4. normalizes the samples to the interval used by `Audio`, and
5. applies the sample rate returned by the service.
The explicit checks for bit depth and channel count are intentional. If the API later returns stereo or a different encoding, the function fails with useful metadata rather than silently producing distorted audio.
## Extensions
The same helper can be extended in several useful directions:
- accept a list of speaker-to-voice mappings for dialogue,
- memoize results using a hash of the payload,
- return both the `Audio` object and quota metadata,
- use `URLSubmit` for asynchronous jobs, or
- wrap the function in an `APIFunction` for a Wolfram Cloud workflow.
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