Shivam Paw

Hello! I've just released v20 of this driver, it adds support for OS 3.4.2 and also adds a property to increase/decrease the volume of Google Speech announcements There's also a sale on the driver price for the next couple of weeks

Hey, sorry for the delay on this. V20 of my TTS driver adds support for Google Speech Volume (and supports 3.4.2)

For Google TTS this should be possible. I'm prepping a release later this week so i'll try to get it added into it

I think the issue would still remain right? When should the volume get reverted - I don't think there's a way to know when the announcement has actually finished playing. What if there was an ability to specify a volume setting to the TTS engines we use. So if you wanted the announcement volumes higher/lower, it can be set in properties and the resulting wav/mp3 is simply a higher/lower volume?

Interesting. It's probably possible, the only thing is figuring out when an announcement ends. I'm not sure from memory if that's possible and if it's not, then reverting to the previous volume becomes a bit of a guessing game? Side note, those who are looking for the announcements driver not to rely on internet. What if it cached the files we get from the TTS system? I'd need to think about it some more as we don't really want to cache dozens of announcements a day (caching a different weather temperature every day would be pointless). But maybe caching "static" announcements could work, and therefore also speed them up.

Hey everyone, just released version 15 which adds the ability to add custom pauses in the text. This only works with Google Could Text to Speech. For example, you can use: Hello %pause 5% world which will return an audio file which says "Hello" and then pauses for 5 seconds, before saying "world". This can come in handy for small announcements which C4 doesn't really like, or maybe for dramatic effect Lastly, there's also a discount active on DriverCentral till the end of the month for this driver: https://drivercentral.io/platforms/control4-drivers/text-to-speech-driver/

Released version 14 today which adds support for Google Studio Voices (they're very human like!). Currently only available in English US. Also fixed a bug where the gender wasn't always working correctly for Google TTS.

I am not too sure what's going on here. I'd suggest redownloading the driver from DriverCentral - check you're getting Version 12 and then adding it to C4. Does any error come up? Also try searching for just "Google Calendar" without any manufacturer etc.

I've moved this driver over to DriverCentral now and also made it so that if you do manually setup port forwarding for the web service, you would be able to submit voice messages from the port forwarded version without having to be on the actual directors network! https://drivercentral.io/platforms/control4-drivers/text-to-speech-driver/

This driver is now available on DriverCentral: https://drivercentral.io/platforms/control4-drivers/security-systems/control4-ip-camera-anpr/ There has been some license changes with OpenALPR, I'd recommend trying out PlateRecognizer if you use this driver!

Just to add - the Text to Speech driver linked above does also provide the ability to record your voice and send that through speakers

The drivers dont currently support ssml, mainly because it would be weird to program with I think and lead to many “you missed the closing >” issues

I could have a look at this but I think it could be tricky. One way you could achieve this right now is by adding a delay before executing the announcement in the announcement file created event?

I think this will be because you’ve not entered any billing details in the google account. It should continue to work for free for the majority of users, forever, as the free tier is extremely generous but you’ll need to enter billing details.

On that slightly hijacking note, we did add Plate Recogniser support to our driver some time ago if anyone wants to try it out! https://www.blackwiredesigns.com/store/control4-apnr-alpr/