[arm-allstar] Weather on hamvoip Allstar

[Doug Crompton]

Chris,

 No it has nothing to do with that. It is TTS not locally stored words.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 9:07 AM "Chris Zenchenko via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Doug,
> Will this update break any currently running hourly weather announcements
> or
> other weather functions?
> I've integrated several vocabulary changes using pre-recorded words and
> phraises to change the sound of my top-of-the hour time and temp/conditions
> output.
> tnx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ARM-allstar <arm-allstar-bounces at hamvoip.org> On Behalf Of "Doug
> Crompton via ARM-allstar"
> Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 1:19 AM
> To: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> Cc: Doug Crompton <wa3dsp at gmail.com>
> Subject: [arm-allstar] Weather on hamvoip Allstar
>
> There has been an addition of several TTS and weather related files in an
> update tonight. Please use the main menu item 1 to update.
>
> After an Allstar user who is also a pilot questioned me about TTS weather
> so he could get aviation weather reports I revisited this. The last time I
> had looked at it several years ago I was not terribly happy with the
> voicerss TTS. Having revisited it I am impressed with its current
> performance. It is also free and allows 350 conversions of up to 100K each
> per day with pay plans offering larger sizes. The free level should be way
> more than enough for the average user.  A typical 5 day NWS weather report
> is about 1200 characters and only changes every few hours or more.
>
> So I improved the tts_audio.sh script which previously had been a package
> download but is now part of the main distribution with an update. Please
> read the updated TTS howto at hamvoip.org for information. You will need
> to
> go to the voicerss website and get a key if you don't already have one.
>
> The audio_tts.sh script automatically creates an Allstar playable voice
> file from any text file. This can be used for ID's, repeater announcements,
> weather, etc. It will also do it in about any language.
>
> For weather it is a little more difficult as you need to find the text you
> want to play and then format it correctly to say what you want and say it
> properly. I have done this in an example script in
> /usr/local/sbin/example_scripts/SayWeather.sh
>
> This script must be configured with your NWS zone URL and weather location
> and local time zone notation. As it stands it will get my  local data here
> in PA. You can run it that way for testing. See the script for
> configuration information. It has lots of comments. This script could be
> run from a cron every few hours as it will only convert a file if it has
> changed since the last download thus not doing unnecessary conversions.
> This script works but remember this is an example script. Keep in mind you
> will need some basic scripting like this to format the weather before you
> send it to tts_audio.sh no matter where you get it.
>
> Have Fun!
>
>
> *73 Doug*
>
> *WA3DSP*
>
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
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