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

[Michael Jerris]

The easiest solution here is to use pre-generated sound files recorded by the same person as the TTS.  The "Callie" voice we have default recordings is the same as the Cepstral tts voice of the same name.

> On Aug 17, 2015, at 1:23 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> <mailto: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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