Re: wget with Google TTS with Chinese not working

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mike Ahrens <rev.stat.boy@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:40:02 -0700
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Trying to use this wget command line:
> 
> wget -q -U Mozilla -O .\MP3\medicine.mp3_1 "
> http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&total=1&idx=0&textlen=32&client=tw-ob&q=++%2C+%E8%8D%AF++%2C++&tl=zh-tw
> "
> 
> I only hear back garbage -- not understandable Chinese,
> 
> 
> But in the browser the exact URL line used above is:
> 
> http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&total=1&idx=0&textlen=32&client=tw-ob&q=++%2C+%E8%8D%AF++%2C++&tl=zh-tw
> 
> and it sounds very good
> 
> Can you provide some help on why wget is not getting the Chinese
> pronnuncistion right.
> 
> if you try similar wget commands with English, it works fine.

Try using the --remote-encoding and --local-encoding options.