How to call VOICECLOUD API using PHP

Question

I want to transcribe (Voice to Text) using VoiceCloud API. The API documentation is lacking the examples for it.

I want to send the (mp3,wav) file using VoiceCloud API. How to send/call the API using PHP. The API provide me only the bellow single line of code to call the API:

http/:voicecloudURL/api?action=sendfile&username=youruserid&devkey=abc123&idtype=username&fileurl=http:/yourserver/file.mp3

Should I use CURL for it?

Answer 1

Should I use CURL for it?

That would be the best bet. Make a request to that URL and catch the response from it. Read from their API docs that they will return an XML response [consists of transactionuid]. Make use of SimpleXMLElement to grab the transactionuid as you can thus proceed further.

Answer 2

You may use just fopen function if opening url is allow in php.ini. Or using curl_init and other cURL functions.