public com.google.protobuf.ByteString getParentBytes() {
      java.lang.Object ref = parent_;
      if (ref instanceof String) {
        com.google.protobuf.ByteString b =
            com.google.protobuf.ByteString.copyFromUtf8((java.lang.String) ref);
        parent_ = b;
        return b;
      } else {
        return (com.google.protobuf.ByteString) ref;
      }
    }
<pre>
The resource states of the request in the form of
`projects/&#42;&#47;locations/&#42;`.
</pre>

<code>string parent = 1;</code>

@return The bytes for parent.
java-texttospeech/proto-google-cloud-texttospeech-v1beta1/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/texttospeech/v1beta1/SynthesizeLongAudioRequest.java