sepia-html-client-app: Possibility to use male android voice

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sepia-html-client-app: Possibility to use male android voice #179

Open SHU-red opened 2 years ago

SHU-red commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently in the sepia app, the Voice Engine (TTS) native can only be set to -system- which provides the female android voice I have changed the setting in my android for my smartphone and google assistant to male Sepia seems to ignore this and TTS is still using female voice, despite the fact that my new -system- setting is changed to male

(Android 12)

Describe the solution you'd like

if -system- is set, then the voice configured in my android settings should be used
for sure it would give additional flexibility if i could pick explicit system-voices for the sepia-app separately (male/female)

Describe alternatives you've considered

Using SEPIA Stream or Mary, but those are by far not as nice as the android system one

Additional context Nope

fquirin commented 2 years ago

Im not really sure how the "default" setting of the system TTS works, my expectation was that it adapts to the Android settings, but I never really tried. I think there is an option to read all available voices ... it just isn't implement yet. I will have to check if it actually works and how much effort it is to fully implement it.

SHU-red commented 2 years ago

Thank you very much I just hope to help the project by highlighting such things

Maybe some day i will be able to really contribute to the files / documentation you created

fquirin commented 2 years ago

I just realized that the current Cordava TTS plugin needs to be replaced with a new one to enable getVoices feature. I'll not be able to finish this for the next update, but I'll put in on top of the todo-list together with streamlining of the plugin interface with Web Speech API and some microphone handling for the update after the next release.

SHU-red commented 2 years ago

Thank you! Awesome!

fquirin commented 2 years ago

Just a quick update: I've finally managed to update the whole Android stack (Android SDK, Android Studio, Cordova, plugins) to the latest version(s), fixed a bazillion of bugs, finally built a very early version of the v0.25.0 client and can now confirm that TTS voices selection will indeed work in the next update 🥳 . So far I've only checked my old Samsung A3 but it already had working German male and female offline(!) voices 😎 . It will probably take some time until the update is finished but if you're interested I could share a beta at some point :-)