ugoviti/izsynth

TTS/Text To Speech synthesizer, background music overlay assembler and audio file converter for PBX and Home Automation Systems

izsynth's Issues

Cannot change voice

Hi, seems this script will be very useful, thanks for big job.

I want to change voice, but nothing changes

izsynth -e naturalreaders -v Peter -t "Welcome home, mr Stark"

the same output for

izsynth -e naturalreaders -v Ryan -t "Welcome home, mr Stark"

Have a good day.

Generic error with voicerss and naturalreaders, playback error with google

Hi,

first of all, thank you for this script. It has worked flawlessly for years(?) as a companion to Domoticz, but noticed that lately there's been some issues that I cannot fully troubleshoot. I used voicerss and when trying to run it manually, I got an unspecified error. I noticed the file was basically empty and thus unplayable. I tried to login to voicerss which claimed it does not recognize my email so I ended up creating a new account with new api key. While at it, I also updated the izsynth to latest beta (had not updated for a long long time), created a new conf file and run the prerequisites installation again hoping that everything would be set. However, I still end up getting same error with voicerss and when I tried with naturalreaders it was the same. With google, however, it went further but still was not able to play the file. The error message is:
sox FAIL remix: too few input channels
I tried searching for this error message but it did not yield results that would have guided me to right direction. Also, I wonder why using google seems to do all kinds of stuff in between fetching the file and playing it. When I used voicerss, it just downloaded an .mp3 to /dev/shm/ and played it. Now google is downloading it to a separate directory in /dev/shm/, gives it a funny ending (e.g. my_file_-d-3132342173.mp3), then converts it to 44khz wav (log shows actions: converting -> normalizing -> remixing) and tries finally to play "my_file_-d-3132342173.44khz.wav" but getting the mentioned error. Can I somehow skip these "extra" steps?

I can play a file that izsynth created earlier with the same player (omxplayer but I also tried with mplayer and others) izsynth is using so basically everything should be in order.

Thanks for any troubleshooting tips...:smile:

Error

I got an error when I try this:

$ izsynth -e naturalreaders -v Peter -t "Welcome home, mr Stark"
== [1/1] - izsynth Name:[Welcome_home__mr_Stark-919753565] =====================
Synthesizing - input:[/dev/shm/izsynth-20180919-100916/Welcome_home__mr_Stark-919753565.txt] engine:[naturalreaders] voice:[Peter] output:[/dev/shm/Welcome_home__mr_Stark-919753565.mp3] size:[4,0K] type:[text/plain] result:[ERROR]

Whats the problem? I'm running on RPI3 with stretch