diff --git a/dlp/composer.json b/dlp/composer.json
index f84ff3cd07..8412486102 100644
--- a/dlp/composer.json
+++ b/dlp/composer.json
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "type": "project",
     "require": {
         "google/cloud-dlp": "^0.26.1",
-        "google/cloud-pubsub": "^1.11.1"
+        "google/cloud-pubsub": "^1.11.1",
+      "ext-json": "*"
     }
 }
diff --git a/speech/src/transcribe_enhanced_model.php b/speech/src/transcribe_enhanced_model.php
index 5fdd6ee3e9..444ca2d801 100644
--- a/speech/src/transcribe_enhanced_model.php
+++ b/speech/src/transcribe_enhanced_model.php
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 // change these variables if necessary
 $encoding = AudioEncoding::LINEAR16;
 $sampleRateHertz = 8000;
-$languageCode = 'en-US';
+$languageCode = 'ar-AR';
 
 // get contents of a file into a string
 $content = file_get_contents($audioFile);
diff --git a/speech/src/transcribe_model_selection.php b/speech/src/transcribe_model_selection.php
index 39d1401855..de9a8ba8ac 100644
--- a/speech/src/transcribe_model_selection.php
+++ b/speech/src/transcribe_model_selection.php
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
 
 // change these variables if necessary
 $encoding = AudioEncoding::LINEAR16;
-$sampleRateHertz = 32000;
-$languageCode = 'en-US';
+$sampleRateHertz = 8000;
+$languageCode = 'ar-AR';
 
 // get contents of a file into a string
 $content = file_get_contents($audioFile);
diff --git a/speech/src/transcribe_sync.php b/speech/src/transcribe_sync.php
index 0e01cbbe00..ad91d219cd 100644
--- a/speech/src/transcribe_sync.php
+++ b/speech/src/transcribe_sync.php
@@ -22,12 +22,13 @@
  */
 
 // Include Google Cloud dependendencies using Composer
+header('Content-Type: application/json');
 require_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';
-
-if (count($argv) != 2) {
-    return print("Usage: php transcribe_sync.php AUDIO_FILE\n");
-}
-list($_, $audioFile) = $argv;
+putenv('GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/var/www/html/php-docs-samples/speech/src/cred.json');
+// if (count($argv) != 2) {
+//     return print("Usage: php transcribe_sync.php AUDIO_FILE\n");
+// }
+// list($_, $audioFile) = $argv;
 
 # [START speech_transcribe_sync]
 use Google\Cloud\Speech\V1\SpeechClient;
@@ -40,11 +41,12 @@
 
 // change these variables if necessary
 $encoding = AudioEncoding::LINEAR16;
-$sampleRateHertz = 32000;
-$languageCode = 'en-US';
+$sampleRateHertz = 8000;
+$languageCode = 'ar-EG';
 
 // get contents of a file into a string
-$content = file_get_contents($audioFile);
+// $content = $_POST['file'];
+$content = file_get_contents("php://input");
 
 // set string as audio content
 $audio = (new RecognitionAudio())
@@ -58,18 +60,64 @@
 
 // create the speech client
 $client = new SpeechClient();
-
+/*
+ * [0] => stdClass Object
+    (
+        [alternatives] => Array
+            (
+                [0] => stdClass Object
+                (
+                    [confidence] => 0.63
+                    [transcript] => yes
+                )
+            )
+        [final] => 1
+    )
+)
+ */
 try {
     $response = $client->recognize($config, $audio);
+    // $results = array();
+
     foreach ($response->getResults() as $result) {
         $alternatives = $result->getAlternatives();
         $mostLikely = $alternatives[0];
         $transcript = $mostLikely->getTranscript();
         $confidence = $mostLikely->getConfidence();
-        printf('Transcript: %s' . PHP_EOL, $transcript);
-        printf('Confidence: %s' . PHP_EOL, $confidence);
+        $results = new stdClass();
+        $results->alternatives = Array();
+        $results->alternatives[0] = new StdClass();
+        $results->alternatives[0]->confidence = $confidence;
+        $results->alternatives[0]->transcript = htmlentities((string)$transcript);
+        // $results[] = $resultx;
+        // printf('Transcript: %s' . PHP_EOL, $transcript);
+        //$result = Array();
+        // $result = htmlentities((string)$transcript);
+        // echo '{result: "'.$result.'"}';
+        // echo json_encode($result);
+        // break;
+        // printf('Confidence: %s' . PHP_EOL, $confidence);
     }
 } finally {
     $client->close();
 }
+// print_r($results);
+// $resultsx = new StdClass();
+// $obj = new StdClass();
+// $obj->results[] = $results;
+// $resultsx[] = $obj;
+
+$resultsx = array();
+$resultsx[] = $results;
+$resultsy = new StdClass();
+$resultsy->results = $resultsx;
+
+
+$json =  json_encode($resultsy, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);
+echo $json;
+// echo html_entity_decode($json);
+// echo html_entity_decode((string)$json);
+// echo html_entity_decode(utf8_decode($json));
+// $output = preg_replace_callback("/(&#[0-9]+;)/", function($m) { return mb_convert_encoding($m[1], "UTF-8", "HTML-ENTITIES"); }, $json);
+// echo "\n".$output;
 # [END speech_transcribe_sync]