[arm-allstar] voice announcements

Patrick Perdue borrisinabox at gmail.com
Sun Oct 31 06:29:26 EDT 2021 

You would have to parse that text file out with a script, as I did. The 
first column is the prompt, the second is the filename to write the 
prompt to, minus extension.

This is not a quite working example.


#!/bin/bash
# This script uses the Mac OS say command to replace relevant sound 
files from AllStarLink.

bdir=/users/borrisinabox/kill_allison
# master prompt text file
PROMPTLIST=/rpt.txt
# count lines in text file for use as upper limit for loop
lastline=$(cat $promptlist | wc -l)
let lastline=lastline+1
echo "$lastline"

# sets stuff up
COUNTER=1
echo $COUNTER
         while [  $COUNTER -lt $lastline ]; do
# prompt to speak

io1="$(tail -n +$COUNTER $PROMPTLIST | head -n 1 | awk -F"|" '{print $1}')";
echo "$io1";
# filename to write prompt to, minus extension

io2="$(tail -n +$COUNTER $PROMPTLIST/rpt.txt | head -n 1 | awk -F"|" 
'{print $2}')";
echo "$io2";
# do the thing

say -v fred -r 550 "$io1" -o $bdir$io2
let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
echo $COUNTER
done


Here, you would replace the say command with another TTS processor and 
it's relevant parameters. This particular snippet doesn't handle 
converting/encoding.

Must have been drunk when I wrote this.

On 10/30/2021 8:29 PM, "Dave Petrie via ARM-allstar" wrote:
> I'm not sure how to run this using tts_audio.sh
> The way I have done it is to create a text file and then tts_audio.sh
> sometext.txt
> and i get the sometext.ul file
> it requires a separate sometext.txt file for each transaction using
> tts_audio.sh which
> uses voicerss.org site and I am very happy with the results.
> so how to i streamline the huge lines of text to run one at a time and
> produce the ul file
>
> Dave
>
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 7:23 PM "Patrick Perdue via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
>> I got rid of Allison on day 2 of having a working Allstar node.
>>
>> I wrote a script to do this using a local voice, in my case, one of the
>> ones from Mac OS, since it uses bash, and has a pretty reasonable voice
>> selection. However, I got slapped pretty good when I suggested ways to
>> create and distribute these a couple of years ago. My (very dirty) bash
>> script reads line-by-line from a vertical bar delimited text file in a
>> while loop, containing the prompt to be spoken on column 1, and the
>> output path (relative to current directory) of the file, minus
>> extension. It then passes each line separately to the Mac OS Say
>> command, including voice name, speed, volume, etc. which writes to .aiff
>> format. These are later converted to ulaw with SoX. SoX also trims the
>> audio on either side to make it extremely responsive, combined with the
>> much faster voice I use. It's about three times faster than Allison. You
>> probably wouldn't want something this fast on a repeater, but as a blind
>> screen reader user, I'm used to very fast speech.
>>
>> This script is all pretty unwieldy and unrefined, and I want to do
>> something better at some point. I wrote it for my own use, and it
>> worked, if only just. The Say command could be substituted for any other
>> CLI TTS application, including voicerss, I suppose.
>>
>> Interesting note: the voicerss American English voices are just renamed
>> versions of some of the Microsoft voices that ship with Windows 10. For
>> example, John is really David, Mike is Mark, etc.
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure what the voicerss.org API limitations are for a free
>> account, but my hand written text file has 446 entries in it. I included
>> some files that I don't think are strictly necessary for app.rpt,
>> including all 50 U.S. state names. Asterisk itself has lots of files
>> that aren't used by app.rpt, so I didn't generate static files for those.
>>
>> Now, you might think it's cool to have every prompt in ulaw format. I
>> certainly do, because it sounds better. HamVoIP has lots of hard-coded
>> .gsm references in scripts, so, on my systems, I have to do a bunch of
>> finding and replacing to make it all work. Sure, GSM files are a lot
>> smaller, but even people I know who aren't audiophiles can tell the
>> difference on an HT speaker.
>>
>> Here is everything I manually wrote down, and fed to my bash script. The
>> third column is just a boundary, because I ran into some weird problem
>> with the way I formatted things in the script.
>> It is assumed that the referenced directories in column 2 preceding the
>> file name exist under /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/
>>
>> Warning! Inactivity timeout.|/rpt/act-timeout-warning|
>> All links disconnected.|/rpt/alllinksdisconnected|
>> All links restored.|/rpt/alllinksrestored|
>> Auto patch on.|/rpt/autopatch_on|
>> Connecting.|/rpt/callproceeding|
>> Call terminated.|/rpt/callterminated|
>> Connected.|/rpt/connected|
>> connecting.|/rpt/connecting|
>> Connection failed.|/rpt/connection_failed|
>> down|/rpt/down|
>> fast|/rpt/fast|
>> frequency,|/rpt/frequency|
>> Good afternoon.|/rpt/goodafternoon|
>> Good evening.|/rpt/goodevening|
>> Good morning.|/rpt/goodmorning|
>> high power.|/rpt/hipwr|
>> Incoming call, on|/rpt/in-call|
>> Invalid frequency.|/rpt/invalid-freq|
>> Keyed for|/rpt/keyedfor|
>> Latitude|/rpt/latitude|
>> Local monitor.|/rpt/localmonitor|
>> Please log in to node.|/rpt/login|
>> Longitude|/rpt/longitude|
>> Low power.|/rpt/lopwr|
>> Macro busy.|/rpt/macro_busy|
>> Macro not found.|/rpt/macro_notfound|
>> Medium power.|/rpt/medpwr|
>> Memory not found.|/rpt/memory_notfound|
>> minus|/rpt/minus|
>> monitor|/rpt/monitor|
>> Node|/rpt/node|
>> off|/rpt/off|
>> on|/rpt/on|
>> plus|/rpt/plus|
>> quick|/rpt/quick|
>> Remote already in this mode.|/rpt/remote_already|
>> Remote busy.|/rpt/remote_busy|
>> Disconnected!|/rpt/remote_disc|
>> By your command,|/rpt/remote_go|
>> Repeat only.|/rpt/repeat_only|
>> Please hold for a few moments, and your call will be connected if there
>> is someone there to answer. Thank |you.|/rpt/revpatch-intro|
>> Sorry. Nobody was able to answer your call at this
>> time.|/rpt/revpatch-noanswer|
>> pl decode|/rpt/rxpl|
>> seconds|/rpt/seconds|
>> simplex|/rpt/simplex|
>> site normal.|/rpt/sitenorm|
>> slow|/rpt/slow|
>> stop.|/rpt/stop|
>> The temperature is,|/rpt/thetemperatureis|
>> The time is,|/rpt/thetimeis|
>> The voltage is,|/rpt/thevoltageis|
>> The wind is,|/rpt/thewindis|
>> Timeout.|/rpt/timeout|
>> Warning! System timeout in,|/rpt/timeout-warning|
>> Tranceive|/rpt/tranceive|
>> PL encode.|/rpt/txpl|
>> Unauthorized transmit frequency.|/rpt/unauthtx|
>> Unkeyed for,|/rpt/unkeyedfor|
>> up|/rpt/up|
>> version,|/rpt/version|
>> 0|/digits/0|
>> 1|/digits/1|
>> 2|/digits/2|
>> 3|/digits/3|
>> 4|/digits/4|
>> 5|/digits/5|
>> 6|/digits/6|
>> 7|/digits/7|
>> 8|/digits/8|
>> 9|/digits/9|
>> 10|/digits/10|
>> 11|/digits/11|
>> 12|/digits/12|
>> 13|/digits/13|
>> 14|/digits/14|
>> 15|/digits/15|
>> 16|/digits/16|
>> 17|/digits/17|
>> 18|/digits/18|
>> 19|/digits/19|
>> 20|/digits/20|
>> 30|/digits/30|
>> 40|/digits/40|
>> 50|/digits/50|
>> 60|/digits/60|
>> 70|/digits/70|
>> 80|/digits/80|
>> 90|/digits/90|
>> eh m|/digits/a-m|
>> at,|/digits/at|
>> Sunday|/digits/day-0|
>> Monday|/digits/day-1|
>> Tuesday|/digits/day-2|
>> Wednesday|/digits/day-3|
>> Thursday|/digits/day-4|
>> Friday|/digits/day-5|
>> Saturday|/digits/day-6|
>> dollars|/digits/dollars|
>> first|/digits/h-1|
>> second|/digits/h-2|
>> third|/digits/h-3|
>> fourth|/digits/h-4|
>> fifth|/digits/h-5|
>> sixth|/digits/h-6|
>> seventh|/digits/h-7|
>> eighth|/digits/h-8|
>> ninth|/digits/h-9|
>> tenth|/digits/h-10|
>> eleventh|/digits/h-11|
>> twelvth|/digits/h-12|
>> thirteenth|/digits/h-13|
>> fourteenth|/digits/h-14|
>> fifteenth|/digits/h-15|
>> sixteenth|/digits/h-16|
>> seventeenth|/digits/seventeenth|
>> eighteenth|/digits/h-18|
>> nineteenth|/digits/h-19|
>> twentieth|/digits/h-20|
>> thirtieth|/digits/h-30|
>> hundred|/digits/hundred|
>> million|/digits/million|
>> minus|/digits/minus|
>> January|/digits/mon-0|
>> February|/digits/mon-1|
>> March|/digits/mon-2|
>> April|/digits/mon-3|
>> May|/digits/mon-4|
>> June|/digits/mon-5|
>> July|/digits/mon-6|
>> August|/digits/mon-7|
>> September|/digits/mon-8|
>> October|/digits/mon-9|
>> November|/digits/mon-10|
>> December|/digits/mon-11|
>> o'clock|/digits/oclock|
>> o|/digits/o|
>> PM.|/digits/p-m|
>> pound|/digits/pound|
>> star|/digits/star|
>> thousand|/digits/thousand|
>> today|/digits/today|
>> tomorrow|/digits/tomorrow|
>> yesterday|/digits/yesterday|
>> A|/letters/a|
>> quote|/letters/ascii34|
>> dollar sign|/letters/ascii36|
>> percent|/letters/ascii37|
>> ampersand|/letters/ascii38|
>> tick|/letters/ascii39|
>> open parenthesis|/letters/ascii40|
>> close parenthesis|/letters/ascii42|
>> comma|/letters/ascii44|
>> colon|/letters/ascii58|
>> semi-colon|/letters/ascii59|
>> less than|/letters/ascii60|
>> greater than|/letters/ascii62|
>> question mark|/letters/ascii63|
>> left bracket|/letters/ascii91|
>> backslash|/letters/ascii92|
>> right bracket|/letters/ascii93|
>> carrot|/letters/ascii94|
>> underscore|/letters/ascii95|
>> back tick|/letters/ascii96|
>> left brace|/letters/ascii123|
>> pipe|/letters/ascii124|
>> right brace|/letters/ascii125|
>> til de|/letters/ascii126|
>> asterisk|/letters/asterisk|
>> at|/letters/at|
>> b|/letters/b|
>> c|/letters/c|
>> d|/letters/d|
>> dash|/letters/dash|
>> dollar|/letters/dollar|
>> dot|/letters/dot|
>> e|/letters/e|
>> equals|/letters/equals|
>> bang|/letters/exclamation-point|
>> f|/letters/f|
>> g|/letters/g|
>> h|/letters/h|
>> i|/letters/i|
>> j|/letters/j|
>> k|/letters/k|
>> l|/letters/l|
>> m|/letters/m|
>> n|/letters/n|
>> o|/letters/o|
>> p|/letters/p|
>> plus|/letters/plus|
>> q|/letters/q|
>> r|/letters/r|
>> s|/letters/s|
>> slash|/letters/slash|
>> space|/letters/space|
>> t|/letters/t|
>> u|/letters/u|
>> v|/letters/v|
>> w|/letters/w|
>> x|/letters/x|
>> y|/letters/y|
>> z|/letters/z|
>> zed|/letters/zed|
>> niner|/phonetic/9_p|
>> alpha|/phonetic/a_p|
>> bravo|/phonetic/b_p|
>> charlie|/phonetic/c_p|
>> delta|/phonetic/d_p|
>> echo|/phonetic/e_p|
>> foxtrot|/phonetic/f_p|
>> golf|/phonetic/g_p|
>> hotel|/phonetic/h_p|
>> india|/phonetic/i_p|
>> juliet|/phonetic/j_p|
>> kilo|/phonetic/k_p|
>> lima|/phonetic/l_p|
>> mike|/phonetic/m_p|
>> november|/phonetic/n_p|
>> oscar|/phonetic/o_p|
>> papa|/phonetic/p_p|
>> quebec|/phonetic/q_p|
>> romeo|/phonetic/r_p|
>> sierra|/phonetic/s_p|
>> tango|/phonetic/t_p|
>> uniform|/phonetic/u_p|
>> victor|/phonetic/v_p|
>> wiskey|/phonetic/w|
>> x-ray|/phonetic/x_p|
>> yankey|/phonetic/y_p|
>> zulu|/phonetic/z_p|
>> around,|/wx/around|
>> barometer|/wx/barometer|
>> ceiling|/wx/ceiling|
>> dew point,|/wx/dew-point|
>> falling|/wx/falling|
>> feet|/wx/feet|
>> foot|/wx/foot|
>> gust|/wx/gust|
>> gusting to,|/wx/gusting-to|
>> gusts|/wx/gusts|
>> gusty|/wx/gusty|
>> heat index,|/wx/heat-index|
>> humidity,|/wx/humidity|
>> inch|/wx/inch|
>> inches|/wx/inches|
>> kilometer|/wx/kilometer|
>> large|/wx/large|
>> meter|/wx/meter|
>> mist|/wx/mist|
>> northeast|/wx/northeast|
>> northwest|/wx/northwest|
>> percent|/wx/percent|
>> point|/wx/point|
>> rising|/wx/rising|
>> southeast|/wx/southeast|
>> southwest|/wx/southwest|
>> steady,|/wx/steady|
>> temperature,|/wx/temperature|
>> wind chill|/wx/wind-chill|
>> winds|/wx/winds|
>> address|/address|
>> weather|/weather|
>> is at,|/is-at|
>> to?|/to|
>> degrees|/degrees|
>> Access denied.|/access-denied|
>> Access granted.|/access-granted|
>> alabama|/alabama|
>> alaska|/alaska|
>> alert!|/alert|
>> arizona|/arizona|
>> arkansas|/arkansas|
>> barometric|/barometric|
>> bearing|/bearing|
>> box|/box|
>> california|/california|
>> cancelled|/cancelled|
>> celsius|/celsius|
>> clouds|/clouds|
>> cloudy|/cloudy|
>> colorado|/colorado|
>> connecticut|/connecticut|
>> connecting!|/connecting|
>> Connection failed!|/connection-failed|
>> Connection timed out.|connection-timed-out|
>> cyclone|/cyclone|
>> date|/date|
>> day|/day|
>> daylight|/daylight|
>> days|/days|
>> delaware|/delaware|
>> disconnected!|/disconnected|
>> easterly|/easterly|
>> eastern|/eastern|
>> east|/east|
>> enabled.|/enabled|
>> evening|/evening|
>> fahrenheit|/fahrenheit|
>> falling|/fahrenheit|
>> feet|/feet|
>> florida|/florida|
>> fog|/fog|
>> foggy|/foggy|
>> freeze|/freeze|
>> freezing|/freezing|
>> frequency|/frequency|
>> from|/from|
>> gale|/gale|
>> georgia|/georgia|
>> gigahertz|/gigahertz|
>> gmt|/gmt|
>> goodbye.|/goodbye|
>> hawaii|/hawaii|
>> heading|/heading|
>> hello!|/hello|
>> hello world!|hello-world|
>> hertz|/hertz|
>> high|/high|
>> hours|/hours|
>> humidity|/humidity|
>> hurricane|/hurricane|
>> ice|/ice|
>> icy|/icy|
>> idaho|/idaho|
>> illinois|/illinois|
>> indiana|/indiana|
>> invalid|/invalid|
>> iowa|/iowa|
>> is|/is|
>> kansas|/kansas|
>> kentucky|/kentucky|
>> kilohertz|/kilohertz|
>> kilometer|/kilometer|
>> kilometers-per-hour|/kilometers-per-hour|
>> lightning|/lightning|
>> Los Angeles|/los-angeles|
>> louisiana|/louisiana|
>> low|/low|
>> machine|/machine|
>> maine|/maine|
>> maryland|/maryland|
>> massachusetts|/massachusetts|
>> maximum|/maximum|
>> megahertz|/megahertz|
>> memory|/memory|
>> meter|/meter|
>> meters|/meters|
>> michigan|/michigan|
>> midnight|/midnight|
>> miles|/miles|
>> miles-per-hour|/miles-per-hour|
>> minimum|/miles-per-hour|
>> minnesota|/minnesota|
>> minute|/minute|
>> minute|/minutes|
>> mississippi|/mississippi|
>> missouri|/missouri
>> misty|/missouri|
>> monitor!|/monitor|
>> Montana|Montana|
>> morning|/morning|
>> mostly|/mostly|
>> mountain|/mountain|
>> nautical-miles|/nautical-miles|
>> near|/near|
>> nevada|/nevada|
>> new hampshire|/new-hampshire|
>> New Jersey|/new-jersey|
>> New Mexico|/new-mexico|
>> New York|/new-york|
>> north|/north|
>> North Carolina|/north-carolina|
>> North Dakota|/north-dakota|
>> northerly|/northerly|
>> oklahoma|/oklahoma|
>> ohio|/ohio|
>> off|/off|
>> on|/on|
>> oregon|/oregon|
>> patchy|/patchy|
>> pennsylvania|/pennsylvania|
>> point?|/point|
>> Public IP address,|/public-ip-address|
>> rain|/rain|
>> rainfall|/rainfall|
>> rainy|/rainy|
>> range|/range|
>> received|/received|
>> receiving|/receiving|
>> reception|/reception|
>> remote base|/remote-base|
>> The remote is already in this mode.|/remote-already-in-this-mode-2|
>> Remote already in this mode!|/remote-already-in-this-mode|
>> repeater|/repeater|
>> repeat only|/repeat-only|
>> restarting|/restarting|
>> rhode island|/rhode-island|
>> rising|/rising|
>> scattered|/scattered|
>> second|/second|
>> seconds|/seconds|
>> simplex|/simplex|
>> slow|/slow|
>> slowly|/slowly|
>> snow|/snow|
>> snowing|/snowing|
>> snowy|/snowy|
>> software|/software|
>> south|/south|
>> South Carolina|/south-carolina|
>> South Dakota|/south-dakota|
>> southerly|/southerly|
>> station|/station|
>> status|/status|
>> storm|/storm|
>> sun|/sun|
>> sunny|/sunny|
>> system|/system|
>> systems|/systems|
>> temperature|/temperature|
>> tennessee|/tennessee|
>> texas|/texas|
>> thunderstorm|/thunderstorm|
>> tide|/tide|
>> time|/time|
>> times|/times|
>> unavailable|/unavailable|
>> units|/units|
>> utah|/utah|
>> variable|/variable|
>> vermont|/vermont|
>> virginia|/virginia|
>> visibility|/visibility|
>> warning!|/warning|
>> was|/was|
>> washington|/washington|
>> watch|/watch|
>> weather station|/weather-station|
>> welcome|/welcome|
>> west|/west|
>> westerly|/westerly|
>> West Virginia|west-virginia|
>> wind|/wind|
>> windy|/windy|
>> wisconsin|/wisconsin|
>> wyoming|/wyoming|
>>
>> On 10/30/2021 12:56 PM, "Dave Petrie via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>>> Just curious if there is a script or file that is in text format for all
>>> the voice recordings. My thought is to run a long text file, which I have
>>> done with no problem on the tts conversion using voicerss.org and change
>>> the voice and when the conversion is complete and downloaded put the
>>> separate files back in the proper place in hamvoip. Just for info, my
>>> duplexer tuning document is 2 pages of text and i converted it in less
>> than
>>> 15 seconds and then it took 8 minutes and 32 seconds to play, so I don't
>>> see a problem with making new files, I just don't know how to streamline
>>> the effort, I understand I could pick and choose the file and replace it,
>>> that will take forever but can be done.
>>> I Don't want anyone falling asleep here, that's why I come up with ideas
>>> now and then.
>>> Thanks
>>> Dave
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
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