AirPlay Speak Plugin for Text To Speech - TTS

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Looking at the Homeseer forum I came across this plugin that allows TTS functionality on the Homeseer device over AirPlay. It looks terrific and it seems to me that it may be possible to give vera this capability. My question is wether anyone has had luck getting Apple Bonjour service running on a Vera.

Has anyone played around with this at all?

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OK, so I have been able to do this using the mac’s “say” command and the Lua os.execute command.

I have been building some notifications and am working on a hobby virtual grandfather clock. I am having problem with this expression, though.

this works on the command line in vera:

ssh -y -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa root@192.168.1.9 say -v “Cellos” Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo. the present time is ten o’clock

but in os.execute as follows:

os.execute(“ssh -y -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa root@192.168.1.9 say -v “Cellos” Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo. the present time is ten o’clock”)

something to do with the [-v “Cellos”] part because removing that piece works, but the voice does not work. So it has something to do with how I nested my quotes…

anyone see it?

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gosh, figured it out.

I didn’t even need the quotes around the voice…

os.execute(“ssh -y -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa root@192.168.1.9 say -v Cellos Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo. the present time is ten o clock”)