https://ja.mesmontgomery.co.uk/categories/api/ Recent content in API on James Montgomery Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ja.mesmontgomery.co.uk/2021/01/api-diversions/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ja.mesmontgomery.co.uk/2021/01/api-diversions/ TL; DR Recently reinvigorated with my new UI work, I set myself to task with simplifying the front end player code. No matter how I looked at it, I’d needed to rewrite the back end API to support a front end rewrite. But what if I didn’t precisely need to do that? Enter stage left, Cloudflare Workers. Below I explain how I arrived at this. If you would like to view the Worker code, you can do so here. https://ja.mesmontgomery.co.uk/2020/04/introducing-async-to-my-serverless-text-to-speech-player-for-jokes-and-quotes/ Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://ja.mesmontgomery.co.uk/2020/04/introducing-async-to-my-serverless-text-to-speech-player-for-jokes-and-quotes/ TL; DR In this post, I revisit my serverless “jokes and quotes” player. The purpose was to remove the tight coupling between the client request and audio playback API source. To explore the issue, I have introduced DynamoDB to store pre-generated results. Challenge overview Logically, all the components of my existing solution depend on each other to succeed to deliver audio to the client. You can visualise it as follows: https://ja.mesmontgomery.co.uk/2020/03/a-serverless-text-to-speech-player-for-jokes-and-quotes/ Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://ja.mesmontgomery.co.uk/2020/03/a-serverless-text-to-speech-player-for-jokes-and-quotes/ TL; DR I decided to dust off my text-to-speech list, implementing a serverless solution delivering random jokes and quotes. You may visit it at this address: https://tts-ja.mesmontgomery.co.uk/ You can get a preview of the joke quality here: Your browser does not support the audio element. Note: I can’t affect the humour quality 🤣. Solution overview Upon visiting the page, an event triggers calls to the API routes for their relative jokes and quotes. https://ja.mesmontgomery.co.uk/2019/03/tts-project-update-1-adding-texture-to-my-generated-speech/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://ja.mesmontgomery.co.uk/2019/03/tts-project-update-1-adding-texture-to-my-generated-speech/ TL; DR In this post, I’d like to share an update on work to address some of the limitations in my text to speech project for Elite Dangerous.. Namely: Single voice is used for the synthesis; and Pitch, tone and emphasis are unchanged from defaults. If you’d like to see the result of the work so far, here is a brief overview video, I’ll describe how we got here below: https://ja.mesmontgomery.co.uk/2019/02/google-cloud-text-to-speech-with-powershell/ Sun, 10 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://ja.mesmontgomery.co.uk/2019/02/google-cloud-text-to-speech-with-powershell/ TL; DR In this post, I’ll walk through the basics of using PowerShell to interact with the Google Cloud Text-to-Speech API. Partly a documentation exercise and somewhat a guide I’d like to have been able to read when I started on my Elite Dangerous Google Cloud Text-to-Speech project. As such, we’ll start with a basic script to produce an audio file and explain how that works. Later I’ll walk through some parameters of interest to affect the response. https://ja.mesmontgomery.co.uk/2019/01/how-to-base64-decode-on-windows-10-without-base64.exe/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://ja.mesmontgomery.co.uk/2019/01/how-to-base64-decode-on-windows-10-without-base64.exe/ TL;DR You can call certutil from PowerShell to produce the required file. Introduction There is a moment in life where you get stuck in a quick start guide - we’ve all been there. At the start of my Google Cloud text-to-speech project it arrived quickly and unexpectedly at step two of this two-step quick start guide. I had successfully returned my first base64 encoded speech audio, onward to the last step: