[arm-allstar] modifying write-node-callsigns script

[Doug Crompton]

Patrick,

   You don't pass the entire text to be interpreted. There is a
speaktext.sh file in /usr/local/sbin that does this as an exampple. It
takes each letter and processes it individually like  W A 3 D S P not
WA3DSP.  Each letter has a gsm file in /lib/asterisk/sound/letters  or
digits, etc.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 9:23 PM "Patrick Perdue via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I've been toying with the idea of making a modified write-node-callsigns
> script, using an up-to-date astdb.txt as the source, but on a machine
> not running HamVoIP, using a Mac to generate the TTS clips. However,
> instead of concatenating existing GSM or ulaw files, I want to have it
> say the entire text string of the callsign field with a space between
> each character, so that TTS weirdness doesn't happen. I'm already using
> a bash script on a Mac to generate replacement sound packs for HamVoIP
> (more on that in the future.) In the name of efficiency, I would like to
> have callsigns spoken at a single utterance. I'm not the most well
> versed shell scripter around, so just looking for ideas of how to go
> about formatting a text string in this way, which can then be fed to the
> say command, then SoX to convert to ulaw as <node_number>.ul. The rest I
> think I can handle.
>
> This may be a little overkill, but as a daily TTS user, I thought it
> would be a nice touch, especially considering the availability of TTS
> voices of Mac OS is greater than what is generally available in Linux.
>
> Also, the sound packs I've generated so far use ulaw, as it sounds
> considerably better than GSM. Thus, I have to do a batch find/replace on
> the HamVoIP scripts that specifically look for .gsm files. I'll probably
> make both GSM and ULAW versions of these sound packs available when I
> smooth some things out, and perhaps even a test in the scripts to use
> either GSM or ULAW, depending on what is available, rather than only
> assuming GSM.
>
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