SOLVED MM and Kalliope: make Kalliope speaking

NPX78

Hello everyone

Sorry for my english.
I hope my question is not already answered in another post

I am working on module and interactions between Kalliope and MagicMirror.
The module receives the order and takes it into account.

Now, I would like to force Kalliope to say someting.

For example:

I say : “Kalliope … Display the calendar for John”
Kalliope send a notification to modules
My module catches this notification and display the calendar for John
My module forces Kalliope to say “The calendera for John is displayed”

The step 1, 2 a,d 3 are OK
But I do not know if it is possible to do the step 4.

Currently I display only the text.

Thank you for your time and your help.

Regards

Nicolas

NPX78

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Hello

So my solution.

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Kalliope Side :

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//-- settings.yml file

# ---------------------------
# Rest API
# ---------------------------
rest_api:
  active: True
  port: 5000
  password_protected: False
  login: admin
  password: secret
  allowed_cors_origin: "*"

active:True allows using the Rest API
password_protected: False allows anonymous connections
allowed_cors_origin: allows connections from other sites. This option is mandatory because the MM site is localhost:8080 and kalliope 127.0.0.1:5000

Concerning the brain.yml file

  - name: "repeat"
    signals:
      - order: "repeat after me {{sentence}}"
    neurons:
      - say:
          message: "{{sentence}}"

This synapse allows Kalliope repeat a sentence.

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Magic Mirror side :

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The following lines could be inserted in a module file

//-- Create the Request object.
const Http   = new XMLHttpRequest();

//-- Url to call fo our synapse.
const url    = 'http://localhost:5000/synapses/start/id/repeat';

//-- Build our data to send as parameters of our request.
var sent     = 'This is the text I want Kalliope repeat';    //-- You can modify it
var data     = {"parameters" : {'sentence':sent}};
var dataJson = JSON.stringify(data);

//-- Launch the request.                
Http.open("POST",url);
Http.setRequestHeader("Content-type","application/json");
Http.send(dataJson);

I hope to be clear
I mark the post as Solved.

Thank you a lot for your time and ideas.

Regards

Nicolas

sdetweil

@npx78 maybe look at the MMM-TTS module (tts - Text To Speech) on github

NPX78

@sdetweil Thank you for your answer.
In a perfect world, I would like to have the Kalliope voice :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes:
Is it possible with MMM-TTS module ?

Regards

Nicolas

sdetweil

@npx78 i do not know

Sean

Consider MMM-GoogleTTS also.

sdetweil

@sean oops… didn’t see that one!

strawberry 3.141

@NPX78 MMM-TTS is an offline text to speech, where you can choose a few different voices, but I assume the voice of the Google module sounds better, but is online.

Here on the forum was once a member of the Kalliope team, you can reach out to him or on the kalliope project itself, if it needs to be that voice.

Sean

@NPX78
After reading your question again, I have a little confusing.
As far as I know, Kalliope has its own TTS feature using pico2wave. And there be more options to use other TTS solution(including Google TTS). So I couldn’t understand why other MM TTS module is needed.

NPX78

@sean hello Sean.
Using the TTS of Kalliope could be the better solution.
But how can I call this fonctionnalité from a MM module

Thank you for your time and explanations

Regars

Nicolas

Sean

@npx78
I have no experience with Kalliope so I’m not sure…
I think this is showing what you needs - https://kalliope-project.github.io/kalliope/rest_api/#run-a-synapse-from-an-order
So, by just calling Kalliope API with curl to run your reply synapse from your module after it’s job, couldn’t be done?