dw886 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Is there a maximum length for an Announcement, either in Control4, or via the Google Text to Speech API? I'm finding that I can make them long enough where they're being truncated, but I'm not sure if it's coming from Google or Control4... It's definitely a "time" limit, because if I speed up the announcement speed in TTS, I can get more words spoken of the same text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted July 30, 2019 Author Share Posted July 30, 2019 Just now, dw886 said: Is there a maximum length for an Announcement, either in Control4, or via the Google Text to Speech API? I'm finding that I can make them long enough where they're being truncated, but I'm not sure if it's coming from Google or Control4... It's definitely a "time" limit, because if I speed up the announcement speed in TTS, I can get more words spoken of the same text. I believe C4 have a 30 second time limit on announcements Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Shivam Paw said: I believe C4 have a 30 second time limit on announcements I’m 99% certain that’s correct. Maybe you need to do cascading announcements? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dw886 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Feature Request: Configurable "Date" formatting for %date% from DD:MM (30 July) to MM:DD (July 30). We're backwards in the US... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted July 31, 2019 Author Share Posted July 31, 2019 2 hours ago, dw886 said: Feature Request: Configurable "Date" formatting for %date% from DD:MM (30 July) to MM:DD (July 30). We're backwards in the US... I just feel that the driver properties will get too clunky if every minor detail like this was made configurable. It’s easy to do, I just don’t know if there’s much point to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dw886 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 16 hours ago, Shivam Paw said: I just feel that the driver properties will get too clunky if every minor detail like this was made configurable. It’s easy to do, I just don’t know if there’s much point to it? True. The other option would be to use %month%, %day%, and %year% as variables, and they could be combined any way someone wanted. There may be another driver somewhere that has these as a variable, and if so, that would create another way to access these since you can concatenate another variable to a string. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted July 31, 2019 Author Share Posted July 31, 2019 56 minutes ago, dw886 said: True. The other option would be to use %month%, %day%, and %year% as variables, and they could be combined any way someone wanted. There may be another driver somewhere that has these as a variable, and if so, that would create another way to access these since you can concatenate another variable to a string. Yeah I’ll probably add some new variables for month, day, year and day of month with the next release Neo1738 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dw886 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Is there a way to access the mp3 file that the TTS driver creates? If an announcement doesn't play (but I get announcement text on a T3 touchscreen), I'd like to be able to determine if it's because the audio file is bad, or if it's the announcement failing in some way. The announcement is for sure triggered, because the announcement text is on screen, but I'm not getting audio... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted July 31, 2019 Author Share Posted July 31, 2019 scp root@CONTROLLER_IP://media/announcements/text_to_speech_announcements_DEVICE_ID.mp3 ~/Desktop Works on Mac OS. But if you ssh into your directory and go to /media/announcements it's there @dw886 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dw886 Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 FYI - the file was fine, but it wasn't playing when the announcement was triggered. Rebooted the controller, and announcements started working again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Is there any easy way to increase the volume of the wav file returned? The reason I ask is 2 fold: 1. The volume is low relative to the music we play etc. so I may have music playing at, say 20 and the need to play the announcement at 5. When the system returns to playing the music, it blasts for a second or two and then returns to volume at 20 and is ok. The fix for this used to be to use a Stop Delay in the announcements Agent but this does not help in OS3 (not sure why - may be a bug). 2. More importantly, when I play the announcement on any of my T3s (in reality, I have only played with this for fun and will probably never use it in real life), the volume is too low even when set to 90. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted August 3, 2019 Author Share Posted August 3, 2019 2 hours ago, South Africa C4 user said: Is there any easy way to increase the volume of the wav file returned? The reason I ask is 2 fold: 1. The volume is low relative to the music we play etc. so I may have music playing at, say 20 and the need to play the announcement at 5. When the system returns to playing the music, it blasts for a second or two and then returns to volume at 20 and is ok. The fix for this used to be to use a Stop Delay in the announcements Agent but this does not help in OS3 (not sure why - may be a bug). 2. More importantly, when I play the announcement on any of my T3s (in reality, I have only played with this for fun and will probably never use it in real life), the volume is too low even when set to 90. I'll make a note of this - I can see it being useful but it's odd...my announcements play very loudly if I up the volume to more than 50. Different setups of course but I wouldn't think 90% would be too low? It would be interesting to hear the actual WAV file (gotten via SSH) as shown in a previous post to see if that's low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSTRONG Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Did I miss a note indicating that there is a conflict when you popup an announcement (image) on the T3 and try to play a text to speech announcement at the same time? Looks like the only way to bring back the text to speech again is a controller reboot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 1 hour ago, Shivam Paw said: I'll make a note of this - I can see it being useful but it's odd...my announcements play very loudly if I up the volume to more than 50. Different setups of course but I wouldn't think 90% would be too low? It would be interesting to hear the actual WAV file (gotten via SSH) as shown in a previous post to see if that's low. 50% is perfect on my speakers but on my T3s, even 90% is low. Not sure why. I have also never played announcements to T3s before, so I am not sure what is normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted August 4, 2019 Author Share Posted August 4, 2019 14 hours ago, South Africa C4 user said: 50% is perfect on my speakers but on my T3s, even 90% is low. Not sure why. I have also never played announcements to T3s before, so I am not sure what is normal. I’ve never tried T3s to be honest but I’d try a normal announcement and see what it’s like on a T3. 14 hours ago, Cartnj said: Did I miss a note indicating that there is a conflict when you popup an announcement (image) on the T3 and try to play a text to speech announcement at the same time? Looks like the only way to bring back the text to speech again is a controller reboot Does this happen when you play a normal announcement (not using this driver) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted December 1, 2019 Author Share Posted December 1, 2019 I've made a couple of videos showcasing the text to speech parts of the driver: There is also the functionality to record voice messages (up to 30 seconds) so be sure to take a look at the driver demo to get a feel of it! 20% off the driver and all our other drivers until 9th December so hurry! https://www.blackwiredesigns.com/store/control4-text-to-speech/ South Africa C4 user, Neo1738 and msgreenf 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSTRONG Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 HI Shivam. This text to speech has been working great for several months. But just recently it stopped working. Is there something I should be looking at to troubleshoot? Thanks] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted January 19, 2020 Author Share Posted January 19, 2020 1 minute ago, JSTRONG said: HI Shivam. This text to speech has been working great for several months. But just recently it stopped working. Is there something I should be looking at to troubleshoot? Thanks] Hi im more than happy to take a look remotely. Can you PM me with your account name and change your dealer to Jooced? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 15 minutes ago, JSTRONG said: HI Shivam. This text to speech has been working great for several months. But just recently it stopped working. Is there something I should be looking at to troubleshoot? Thanks] I quickly tested my setup to make sure that it is working and it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSTRONG Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Something wrong with my annoucements. None of them are working. This is not a specific issue with this driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 3 hours ago, JSTRONG said: Something wrong with my annoucements. None of them are working. This is not a specific issue with this driver. Give the system a reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSTRONG Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Yeah I’ve done that. I’ll let support check this out tomorrow. Something is going on with the controller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERDrPC Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 I also have an issue but it has been there since the driver was installed. When choosing listen I can type a message and it plays in the kitchen. The weather driver announces the weather every morning in the kitchen. However, in all other rooms, I choose listen and type in the message then it either plays over the kitchen speakers or doesn't play in the selected room at all. All other audio sources (sonos, cable boxes,) and audio from watch sources play in their respective rooms with no issue. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSTRONG Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Are you doing a "clear the text to speech" property before the message? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERDrPC Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 I'm using the TS in the respective room. I manually backspace and delete the text and type the new text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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