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

Tue Aug 18 00:39:51 MSD 2015

Oh? I thought that Callie was a person - and you had to pay/contract to get updates periodically for the voice prompts.

-- Nathan

On 08/17/2015 01:24 PM, Michael Jerris wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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>> 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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Nathan Neulinger                       nneul at mst.edu
Missouri S&T Information Technology    (573) 612-1412
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