[Freeswitch-users] Feature request/suggestion - "say" w/ tts_engine backing

[Brian West]

I see what you're saying, you'll probably want to pre-generate those then,
its a limited set of items.

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Nathan Neulinger <nneul at mst.edu> wrote:

> Not sure I see what you're meaning... That has calls to 'speak-text',
> which just calls TTS directly, without any of the
> 'smarts' of 'say'.
>
> I can currently do this:
>
>          <action application="speak" data="Hi, the number you are calling
> from"/>
>          <action application="say" data="en name_spelled iterated
> ${caller_id_number}"/>
>          <action application="playback" data="silence_stream://100"/>
>          <action application="speak" data="is blocked to this extension.
> Goodbye."/>
>
> which uses the already defined tts_engine/tts_voice to provide the audio
> for the other text (in the speak calls), but
> the iterated audio of caller id number is spoken by Callie via mod_say_en.
> Similar for the other functions in say - for
> currency, counts, ip addresses, etc.
>
> In that scenario, the voice will be different.
>
> I suppose I could create a new sounds directory, prepopulated with all of
> the phrases spoken by Callie based on the
> phrases.en, and then set sound_prefix ahead of time, at which point the
> voice would match up, but seems like the grammar
> portion of say could be useful to be able to use generically without
> having to prepopulate the content. Negative is that
> given that MOST of those sounds would not be used, it's a bunch of excess
> calls to the TTS engine to pregenerate for not
> a lot of benefit.
>
> -- Nathan
>
> On 08/17/2015 11:45 AM, Brian West wrote:
> > You should already be able to do this,
> >
> > see conf/vanilla/lang/en/vm/tts.xml
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Nathan Neulinger <nneul at mst.edu
> <mailto:nneul at mst.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >     It would be useful to be able to leverage the functionality of say -
> for smart parsing/breaking up of the text, but to
> >     request that it use the setting for 'tts_engine' to actually get the
> audio instead of using the recorded files.
> >
> >     Implementation possibility:
> >
> >              Allow specifying a 'voice' for say via a separate variable
> (so as to not change the calling convention) -
> >     to specify
> >     the prefix directory it searches in for audio files.
> >              If the desired file isn't present, fall back to generating
> the words with the configured tts engine.
> >              (optional, selectable?) Cache the resulting generated
> word/phrase for future reuse
> >
> >     -- Nathan
> >
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