Possible fix for for the Google TTS 'API'

Thanks to @sympoz
glutanimate · Nov 6, 2016 · 503963b · 503963b
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diff --git a/simple_google_tts b/simple_google_tts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # NAME:         Simple Google TTS
 # VERSION:      0.1
-# AUTHOR:       (c) 2014 Glutanimate <https://github.com/Glutanimate/>
+# AUTHOR:       (c) 2014 - 2016 Glutanimate <https://github.com/Glutanimate/>
 # DESCRIPTION:  Wrapper script for Michal Fapso's speak.pl Google TTS script
 # DEPENDENCIES: - wrapper: xsel libttspico0 libttspico-utils libttspico-data libnotify-bin
 #               - speak.pl: libwww-perl libwww-mechanize-perl libhtml-tree-perl sox libsox-fmt-mp3

diff --git a/speak.pl b/speak.pl
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ ()
 sub GetSentenceResponse() {
 	my $sentence = shift;
 	my $amptk = int(rand(1000000)) . '|' . int(rand(1000000));
-	my $resp = $browser->get("https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=$language&q=$sentence&total=1&idx=0&client=t&tk=$amptk");
+	my $resp = $browser->get("https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=$language&q=$sentence&total=1&idx=0&client=tw-ob&tk=$amptk");
 
 	if ($resp->content =~ "^<!DOCTYPE" ||
 		$resp->content =~ "^<html>") 
@@ -363,10 +363,10 @@ ()
 	my $sentence = shift;
 
 	my $recaptcha_waiting = 0;
-	print "URL: https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=$language&q=$sentence&total=1&idx=0&client=t\n";
+	print "URL: https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=$language&q=$sentence&total=1&idx=0&client=tw-ob\n";
 	while (1) {
 		my $amptk = int(rand(1000000)) . '|' . int(rand(1000000));
-		my $url = "https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=$language&q=$sentence&total=1&idx=0&client=t&tk=$amptk";
+		my $url = "https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=$language&q=$sentence&total=1&idx=0&client=tw-ob&tk=$amptk";
 		$mech->get($url); $mech->add_header( Referer => "$referer" ); $referer = $url;
 		if ($mech->response()->content() =~ /^<!DOCTYPE/ || 
 			$mech->response()->content() =~ /^<html>/)