MMM-TTS

strawberry 3.141

An offline text-to-speech module

[card:fewieden/MMM-TTS]

For developers:

this.sendNotification('MMM-TTS', 'This is a text to read. Hello World!');

alexyak

@strawberry-3.141 hey, man, what’s the state of your MMM-voice module?

strawberry 3.141

@alexyak still in development was working most of the time on different modules

[card:fewieden/MMM-voice]

alexyak

@strawberry-3.141 what’s left there, what’s working and what’s not?

strawberry 3.141

voice recognition and installer are finished, but need to build the module itself

cowboysdude

You two are amazing! It’s people like you that bring this type of technology and make it reachable by far more people that just couldn’t afford to pay HUGE amounts of money to just buy a mirror that works…

Thanks for ALL your hard work and patience with those of us who are neither py or js developers!

alexyak

@cowboysdude thank you.

alexyak

@strawberry-3.141 I could start looking at the module for voice rec. if you don’t mind.

davericher

@strawberry-3.141 Not to be a debbie downer, but does electron not expose Chromes built in multi voice text to speech api?

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2014/01/Web-apps-that-talk-Introduction-to-the-Speech-Synthesis-API

strawberry 3.141

@davericher should be, but that wouldn’t work for people with serveronly mode

davericher

@strawberry-3.141 True, but it would work for every connected client

strawberry 3.141

@davericher if you like you can create a pr to let the user decide via config if he wants to use festival or speech synthesis :)

cowboysdude

Question…this is what I"m trying to do…

else if (/(HIDE)/g.test(data) && /(CLOCK)/g.test(data)) {
          this.hide(0, {lockString: 'MMM-voice'});
          this.sendNotification('MMM-TTS', 'Hiding Clock');
        }  else if (/(SHOW)/g.test(data) && /(CLOCK)/g.test(data)) {
          this.show(0, {lockString: 'MMM-voice'});
        this.sendNotification('MMM-TTS', 'Showing clock');
        }

It works buttttttttttttttt the 1st time you fire it off it doesn’t stop LOL

“Showing clock”…“showing clock”…“showing clock”…

Same for Hiding clock

Apparently I’m not using it correctly hahahhahhahhaha

SO which is the correct way?

strawberry 3.141

@cowboysdude where did you put that code piece?

cowboysdude

@strawberry-3.141

checkCommands(data) {
        if (/(HELP)/g.test(data)) {
            if (/(CLOSE)/g.test(data) || (this.help && !/(OPEN)/g.test(data))) {
                this.help = false;
                this.interval = this.createInterval();
            } else if (/(OPEN)/g.test(data) || (!this.help && !/(CLOSE)/g.test(data))) { 
                this.help = true;
                clearInterval(this.interval);
            }
        } else if (/(HIDE)/g.test(data) && /(CLOCK)/g.test(data)) {
          this.hide(300, {lockString: 'MMM-voice'});
         //  if (this.hide){
         // this.sendNotification('MMM-TTS', 'Hiding Clock');
        //   }
        }  else if (/(SHOW)/g.test(data) && /(CLOCK)/g.test(data)) {
          this.show(300, {lockString: 'MMM-voice'});
        //  this.sendNotification('MMM-TTS', 'Showing clock');
        }  
        
    },

strawberry 3.141

@cowboysdude could it be that the output of tts is putting you in a loop because it is triggering the command again :D try to change the output of tts so it will not trigger any output and then see if it still occurs

cowboysdude

OK have no idea what that means but I didn’t change anything and now this is all I get…

Error: SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : voice_us1_mbrola

at Socket. (/home/cowboysdude/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-TTS/node_modules/say/index.js:83:14)
at Socket.g (events.js:286:16)
at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
at Socket.emit (events.js:188:7)
at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:176:18)
at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:134:10)
at Pipe.onread (net.js:543:20)

strawberry 3.141

@cowboysdude For me it sounds like the output of tts showing clock triggered the voice module to recognize the command again, so tts said showing clock again -> infinite loop

Not sure what this error is

cowboysdude

Thanks!!! I got it… can’t understand the jibberish it’s saying but I think TTS didn’t install properly…

FOR the record in simple form DO NOT use the same phrases in TTS that you use for sentences for voice…

if anyone needs examples please let me know I’ll be happy to help.