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SynthesizeSpeech timeout when using ssml

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Hi guys. The version of package 1.1.3. 08/14/2019 I noticed that requests through client.SynthesizeSpeech() failed by timeout. I sending parts of ssml with length 5000.

const request = {

                input: {ssml: someText},	              
                voice: languageConfig,	      
                audioConfig: {	                
                    audioEncoding: 'MP3',	                  
                    sampleRateHertz: 16000,	             
                    effectsProfileId: ['handset-class-device' ]
            }

Then I tried to send smaller pieces of ssml (2000 chars). And now I got the response but still, it works much slower than previous. Maybe be do you know what could be the reason of such behavior?

Also I almost sure that input: {text: someText} works pretty much faster

Thanks in advance!

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bbookmancommented, Aug 16, 2019

I can reproduce this. Next stop is to get the issue to the right folks.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=en>
  <meta charset=utf-8>
  <meta name=viewport content="initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width">
  <title>Error 502 (Server Error)!!1</title>
  <style>
    *{margin:0;padding:0}html,code{font:15px/22px arial,sans-serif}html{background:#fff;color:#222;padding:15px}body{margin:7% auto 0;max-width:390px;min-height:180px;padding:30px 0 15px}* > body{background:url(//www.google.com/images/errors/robot.png) 100% 5px no-repeat;padding-right:205px}p{margin:11px 0 22px;overflow:hidden}ins{color:#777;text-decoration:none}a img{border:0}@media screen and (max-width:772px){body{background:none;margin-top:0;max-width:none;padding-right:0}}#logo{background:url(//www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_150x54dp.png) no-repeat;margin-left:-5px}@media only screen and (min-resolution:192dpi){#logo{background:url(//www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_150x54dp.png) no-repeat 0% 0%/100% 100%;-moz-border-image:url(//www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_150x54dp.png) 0}}@media only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:2){#logo{background:url(//www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_150x54dp.png) no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:100% 100%}}#logo{display:inline-block;height:54px;width:150px}
  </style>
  <a href=//www.google.com/><span id=logo aria-label=Google></span></a>
  <p><b>502.</b> <ins>That’s an error.</ins>
  <p>The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.<p>Please try again in 30 seconds.  <ins>That’s all we know.</ins>

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jvandenaardwegcommented, Aug 16, 2019

Well, that did not work. Same problem exists on 1.1.2. Seems the Google Text To Speech service has troubles then. In the Google Cloud Community slack group some also report the same timeout troubles, since yesterday it seems.

This is really crap, my whole app is instantly unusable because of this. None of my speech requests seem to go through. They all timeout, on all voices it seems.

100% error rate, with 504’s on the service:

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