[Freeswitch-users] German voice prompts

[Michael Collins]

Thanks for checking in and showing us this tool. If you have a minute to
join us on the Wednesday conference call maybe you could call in and talk
about it. :)

Thanks,
MC

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Julian Pawlowski <
julian.pawlowski at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org>
>  wrote:
>
>> Thanks for taking the lead on this. Once you get a set of sound files
>> ready for production please let me know. I will get them house in our
>> freeswitch-sounds git repo so that we can keep track of them and properly
>> roll tarballs to put out on files.freeswitch.org.
>>
>
> I wanted to give you an update on this.
>
> It actually became a lot more than just only creating german voice prompts
>  now.
> The repo currently hosted on
> https://github.com/jpawlowski/freeswitch-sounds-tts provides capability
> to create voice prompts for any language via Google TTS and Bing TTS
> services.
>
> Although we have lovely Callie for the english people already I found this
> useful as there may be people out there wanting to create their own
> prompts but wish to mix it with existing ones (which is doable with
> Callie but it mixes the voices...).
>
> You may download pre-compiled prompts for german and english here:
> http://repo.profhost.eu/static/freeswitch/
>
> Although I gave them version 1.0.1 already I'm not sure if they are ready
> to be published on files.freeswitch.org yet, maybe wait for some feedback
> first.
>
> Oh and I did some improvements to the english part also, e.g.
>
> - typos in the filename
> - adjust long texts with a line break for separate processing (e.g. Google
> wants shorter texts)
> - identify tones and music files
> - remove duplicates (mostly related to the tones)
> - (can't remember right now, might be more)
>
> For the tones part: When I was looking through the files it seemed there
> was an intention to include tone files for e.g. joining/leaving a
> conference. I moved them to a dedicated folder and tried to find some first
> files:
> https://github.com/jpawlowski/freeswitch-sounds-tts/tree/master/tone
> https://github.com/jpawlowski/freeswitch-sounds-tts/tree/master/music
>
> Those files will be included into the normal voice path during packaging
> (see files mentioned above).
> I didn't check if tones are used anywhere in the FS source code already to
> adapt the file names yet.
>
> There are also a bunch of administrative scripts included to import/export
> files from XML or existing Callie voice. I also have plans to create a
> new XML file to update phrase_en.xml and phrase_de.xml in the FS Git repo
> but it's not finished yet.
>
> The scripts are not really pretty and mix different kind of programming
> languages. However they are working for now, may be consolidation can be
> done later :-)
> For now I would like to keep the repo for the TTS stuff at my Github
> account but surely we can talk about a transfer to the FS servers later.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
>
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