FYI GoogleTTS Returns from the Dead.. Again

[Jose Casares]

Patch works like a charm... thanks to all!

How did you get it to work?

 

[jerrm]

I installed the patch but can anybody tell me how to use it? Sorry I'm a newbie. I tried to update TTS Module and got this error.

Module Administration
Errors with selection:

• Text To Speech cannot be installed:
  • Module ttsengines is required.
  Please try again after the dependencies have been installed.

No actions to perform
Thanks in advance.
Jose Casares




PIAF 3.0.6.7
FreePBX Ver: 2.11.0.43
Running Asterisk Version: 11.22.0
Operating Sys: CentOS 6.7

ttsengines is a Sangoma commercial module and therefore not part of IPBX.

 

[Nubleet]

Any update on this? I am getting

 googletts-cli.pl -o /tmp/tts/test.wav -t "Things and stuff that needs to be said"
Failed to fetch speech data. at /usr/local/sbin/googletts-cli.pl line 126.

 

[wardmundy]

This seems to be an endless battle so we are moving the News and Weather apps to FLITE. Here's the patch for those that need it.

# patch to replace GoogleTTS with FLITE since GoogleTTS is dead meat
sed -i '\:// BEGIN nv-news-yahoo:,\:// END nv-news-yahoo:d' /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf
echo ';# // BEGIN nv-news-yahoo
exten => 951,1,Answer
exten => 951,n,Wait(1)
exten => 951,n,Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=7)
exten => 951,n,Set(TIMEOUT(response)=10)
exten => 951,n,Flite("Please hold a moment while we retrieve the latest Yahoo news headlines.")
exten => 951,n,AGI(nv-news-yahoo.php,10)
exten => 951,n,Flite("${NEWS}")
exten => 951,n,Hangup
;# // END nv-news-yahoo
' > /tmp/news.txt
sed -i '/\[from-internal-custom\]/r /tmp/news.txt' /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf
rm -f /tmp/news.txt
sed -i '\:// BEGIN nv-weather-google:,\:// END nv-weather-google:d' /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf
echo ';# // BEGIN nv-weather-google
exten => 949,1,Answer
exten => 949,n,Wait(1)
exten => 949,n,Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=7)
exten => 949,n,Set(TIMEOUT(response)=10)
exten => 949,n(retryw),Flite("After the beep say the city and state or province of the weather report you wish to retrieve. Then press pound.")
exten => 949,n,agi(speech-recog.agi,en-US)
exten => 949,n,Noop(= Script returned: ${status} , ${id} , ${confidence} , ${utterance} =)
exten => 949,n,GotoIf($["${confidence}" > "0.4"]?proceedw:retryw)
exten => 949,n(proceedw),Flite("Please hold a moment while we retrieve your report for ${utterance}.")
exten => 949,n,AGI(nv-weather-google.php,${utterance})
exten => 949,n,NoOp(Forecast: ${WEATHER})
exten => 949,n,Flite("${WEATHER}")
exten => 949,n,Hangup
;# // END nv-weather-google
' > /tmp/weather.txt
sed -i '/\[from-internal-custom\]/r /tmp/weather.txt' /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf
rm -f /tmp/weather.txt
asterisk -rx "dialplan reload"

 

[Trimline2]

Well, I'm keeping my head down on this one - I just installed a new system that went production on 9/1 and I'm not experiencing any issues with Google TTS. Both News and History (patched) work just fine; I've always run Weather with Flite.

 

[chris_c_]

The googletts-cli.pl is working fine here now. Here's the resulting .wav file to listen to.
http://www.espacenetworks.com/media/audio/test.wav

Instead of hard switching over to FLITE, why not first try googletts-cli.pl, if it fails, then try picotts, if that fails, then try FLITE.

Because at one time or another, each of them can all fail. Yet it's unlikely for all 3 to fail at the same time.

 

[wardmundy]

Here is the latest set of patches for GoogleTTS from Lefteris Zafiris:

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/zaf/asterisk-googletts.git
cd asterisk-googletts
mv goo* /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/
chown asterisk:asterisk /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/*.agi
cd cli
mv googletts-cli.* /usr/local/sbin/.
chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/googletts*
cd /tmp
rm -rf asterisk-googletts

 

[Chakravarty]

Hi there - On my PIAF Green I don't have the propolys-tts.agi file. Can I simply install it by adding the propolys-tts.agi file (from https://git.freepbx.org/projects/FREEPBX/repos/tts/browse/agi-bin/propolys-tts.agi) to the directory: /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/
chown asterisk:asterisk /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/*.agi

But don't I need something in my /usr/bin directory?
I am trying to follow the instructions to add a Polly TTS as shown here - https://community.freepbx.org/t/tts-engine-custom-amazon-polly-24-languages/40763

Many thanks for any guidance!