saving google translate audio
Several months ago I was saving google translated audio by right clicking "Inspect (Q)" and clicking Network and Media then opening appropriate link in new tab. Now when I do this this and hit Listen icon the speech is generated ok but no links are generated in lower partition. Thanks for your help. Am using Windows and Firefox 89.0.1
Réiteach roghnaithe
It seems that when you first move your mouse over the speaker icon, Google Translate retrieves a JSON file that contains an encoded version of the audio. I think this article holds the key to turning it back into actual audio:
https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/base64-decoding
So experimenting:
(1) Right-click the request starting with batchexecute? then click Open in New Tab then save the file from the Download dialog (Firefox picks up the name response.bin from the Content-Disposition header and you can add .json while saving or before opening)
(2) Open the .json file in a text editor and remove the following from the beginning of the file -- note that the number varies depending, I assume, on the size of the audio payload:
)]}'
13156 [["wrb.fr","jQ1olc", "[\"
(3) Toward the bottom of the file, remove the following, which may vary a bit:
\"]\n",null,null,null,"generic"] ] 58 [["di",110] ,["af.httprm",109,"2935967112318335285",7] ] 28 [["e",4,null,null,13257] ]
(4) Save the file
(5) Open a command prompt (cmd.exe), navigate to the correct folder, then run
certutil -decode response.bin.json testaudio.mp3
That worked, but what a pain in the *ss.
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Hi, the list under Network starts from when you open the Developer Tools panel. Does it help to open Network (Ctrl+Shift+E) before you request the translation?
jscher2000- Thanks for quick reply. the ctrl_shift+e though doesn't seem to do it. Neither does ctrl+shift+i. I also turned off all the ESET security options but had no improvement. There is an add-on called flashget for firefox which was purported to allow saving the mp3 but this didn't seem to be supported by Mozilla. Any thoughts on this? Cheers.
Hmm, I can't figure out how the audio is transmitted without a file appearing on the list.
Réiteach Roghnaithe
It seems that when you first move your mouse over the speaker icon, Google Translate retrieves a JSON file that contains an encoded version of the audio. I think this article holds the key to turning it back into actual audio:
https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/base64-decoding
So experimenting:
(1) Right-click the request starting with batchexecute? then click Open in New Tab then save the file from the Download dialog (Firefox picks up the name response.bin from the Content-Disposition header and you can add .json while saving or before opening)
(2) Open the .json file in a text editor and remove the following from the beginning of the file -- note that the number varies depending, I assume, on the size of the audio payload:
)]}'
13156 [["wrb.fr","jQ1olc", "[\"
(3) Toward the bottom of the file, remove the following, which may vary a bit:
\"]\n",null,null,null,"generic"] ] 58 [["di",110] ,["af.httprm",109,"2935967112318335285",7] ] 28 [["e",4,null,null,13257] ]
(4) Save the file
(5) Open a command prompt (cmd.exe), navigate to the correct folder, then run
certutil -decode response.bin.json testaudio.mp3
That worked, but what a pain in the *ss.
Long story short...it turns out that Audacity can capture audio quite easily as it comes over the speakers. So for my purposes... Problem Solved! Yippee.... Cheers and beers for all.....
That sounds much easier.