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Title: Text-To-Speech "Announcer" Plug-in or Application?
Post by: SpedInFargo on February 05, 2008, 05:36:49 pm

Has anyone heard of any plugins or apps that would announce the currently playing song?

I've been working on my conceptual home audio setup and I don't see a fiscally responsible way to get a "now playing" display everywhere I would like.

I think it would be pretty cool to be able to press a button on the remote anywhere in the house and have a computer voice over the top reading information from the tags.  I think all of the tools are there:  Firefly remote to Girder or EventGhost to send a command to either MC or an external app.  Grab the tag information for the currently-playing track, send that through a text-to-speech plugin and have it send the resulting sound across the soundcard.

This would come in extremely handy for those songs that come up and I want to quickly find out who the artist/song is...

Thoughts?

Title: Re: Text-To-Speech "Announcer" Plug-in or Application?
Post by: Mr ChriZ on February 05, 2008, 06:01:17 pm

I believe the playing now plugin does this.  I'm not sure of the best way to get the latest version.

Title: Re: Text-To-Speech "Announcer" Plug-in or Application?
Post by: KingSparta on February 05, 2008, 06:19:51 pm

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I believe the playing now plugin does this.

Text-To-Speech?

Not that i know of.

Title: Re: Text-To-Speech "Announcer" Plug-in or Application?
Post by: Mr ChriZ on February 05, 2008, 06:31:16 pm

http://www.jdnet.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=4

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What's new since v1.2.3.12:

1) AudioScrobbler/last.fm support ... update your profile with what you're playing
2) Speech ... get the computer to tell you what is playing (Currently only works if you have the Speech SDK installed)

Title: Re: Text-To-Speech "Announcer" Plug-in or Application?
Post by: marko on February 05, 2008, 06:47:40 pm

indeed, I had it working here a while ago...

Stephen Hawking was announcing the start of each track!!

It's something that's either on or off, you can't set it to only announce at the touch of a button.

Title: Re: Text-To-Speech "Announcer" Plug-in or Application?
Post by: SpedInFargo on February 06, 2008, 09:35:33 am

Cool - glad to hear that someone has played around with the building blocks.  I'll have to check out the Now Playing thing.

The "every song" thing definitely wouldn't work - that would get annoying pretty quickly.

Title: Re: Text-To-Speech "Announcer" Plug-in or Application?
Post by: JONCAT on June 27, 2008, 09:00:23 am

I can hear MS Sam in the Control Panel but doesn't seem to be working with Speech set top True in the .ini

Anyone using this lately?

DC

Title: Re: Text-To-Speech "Announcer" Plug-in or Application?
Post by: dhiggins on August 03, 2008, 07:46:57 pm

Just FYI
I haven't played with the plugin mentioned above, but I am currently working on an "audio announcer" type plug in.
The basic idea is to be able to navigate (at least partially) via audio annoucements instead of having to have some kind of visual device (ie a screen).

Basically, i want to be able to tell what track is playing and navigate between playlists from the patio with just a remote control and speakers, no screen at all.

So far so good. I have the basics of a plugin going, config from within MC12, event notification, etc.

.NET even makes the voice stuff pretty trivial.

Now to actually figure out the MC automation objects.

If anyone's interested, I'd be happy to post back here.

My intent is to make this an Open Source project eventually.

Title: Re: Text-To-Speech "Announcer" Plug-in or Application?
Post by: skeeterfood on August 04, 2008, 03:18:35 pm

Sounds very cool!  Please do post it when ready for testing.

-John