[arm-allstar] voice announcements

Dave Petrie wa2kjc at gmail.com
Sun Oct 31 15:01:31 EDT 2021 

Hi Patrick, I am not very good with linux, I get by using windows to
manipulate hamvoip but when it comes to the indepth scripting I have to
rely on someone else's hard work. I don't want to cause you any extra work
so changing all the voice files in my hamvoip isn't something that needs to
be done right away.
I have scheduled announcements under control and my remote base channel
selection announcements all sound very good.
I just thought maybe there was an easy way to change the library of voice
files that are default with the download of hamvoip.
I appreciate your responses and will keep looking them over and see if the
light bulb comes on. I have a spare raspberry and sd card and an image that
I can play with and not cause any harm to the working system.
Thanks
Dave

On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 12:35 PM "Patrick Perdue via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> 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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