🚀 | Read track titles aloud for non-display

MiczFlor / RPi-Jukebox-RFID

A Raspberry Pi jukebox, playing local music, podcasts, web radio and streams triggered by RFID cards, web app or home automation. All plug and play via USB. GPIO scripts available.

http://phoniebox.de

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🚀 | Read track titles aloud for non-display #1278

Open Caliandroid opened 3 years ago

Caliandroid commented 3 years ago

One idea i've had a while ago: Track title will be read aloud before the track starts playing.

Use-case:

One folder with a lot of children audiobooks linked to one single rfid card
- example: Benjamin Blümchen, 15 stories. My kids have to wait a while to figure out which story is currently playing to find a particular track without display (especially if they are still too young to read).
- the annoncement of the track title would help them to know this in a few seconds
- this prevents the usage of 15 rfid cards for 15 tracks

MiczFlor commented 3 years ago

It's possible, there are text to speech encoders for open source / linux. They are a bit CPU heavy. And language sensitive. So you need to decide english or german. I have not worked with such software for a decade :) but let's just float the ticket here, a nice idea.

Caliandroid commented 3 years ago

I did a first test yesterday with pyttsx3. It seems to be the best approach in terms of voice quality and avoiding proprietary code like google tts.

As i did not work on this project since years, could anybody help me to find the right place to call my text2voice function if a new track starts playing?

s-martin commented 7 months ago

~~Implemented in V3 (see here).~~

pabera commented 7 months ago

We have Text-to-Speech implemented, but it does not read the song out loud. This should be implemented in V3 as an option.