Hi Michael,

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Michael Collins <msc@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