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

Tue Aug 18 01:17:34 MSD 2015

She is a person (who's name isn't actually Callie)... and yes, we do pay periodically for new prompts, but we do not pay anything for distribution of the prompts we have already made.  In the scenario you lay out, there are just a couple prompts that are missing. I would just get those recorded.

> On Aug 17, 2015, at 4:39 PM, Nathan Neulinger <nneul at mst.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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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