Text To Speech¶

Overview¶

This plugin can be used to speak any text after an event occurs. It is completely programmable using the automations system (if this then say that).

Configuration¶

Automations examples¶

Text to speech plugin comes with these predefined commands as

• say current time
• say current temperature of the termometer
• say electric device status
• say door/window status
• say readed motion level

which can be attached to any trigger to creates automations like:

• if an object is clicked -> say electric device status
• a door becomes open -> say door/window status

... and so on

How to create new custom commands¶

• Right click on an object and switch to Automations tab
• In command box write say current time or any other say something command, so you can use it as a template for yours
• Click the edit button. In the next window change the say property according to your needs (remembed you can use token substitution to insert variables like @event.object.name)
• Save as new command

Now your command will be available to be used in automations.

How to install better, natural sounding voices¶

Default voices have a very metallic sound. To have more natural sounding voices

• go to the mbrola project website and download the mbrola executable for your operative system (under “getting the mbrola binary”). For Linux download from here. For Windows download from here
• unzip the downloaded archive
• rename the mbrola-SOMETHING executable in “mbrola” (for Linux pc the file is named mbrola-linux-i386)
• put the renamed executable (or mbrola.exe for Windows) into YOUR_FREEDOMOTIC_FOLDER/plugins/devices/freetts/data/voices
• put the voice folders (e.g. us1, us2, etc) into YOUR_FREEDOMOTIC_FOLDER/plugins/devices/freetts/data/voices
• open the plugin manifest file from Plugins -> Configure and set the <mbrola-voice> key to the voice you want to use (e.g. mbrola_us1, mbrola_us2 etc)
• start Freedomotic

Video¶