Pollytts voice service binding 2.2-snapshot is available in the marketplace. PollyTTS is a TTS voice service for Openhab 2.x utilizing a Internet based TTS service provided by amazon called Polly. Polly includes multiple life like voices for a given languages. Can now select different voices withi…

Here is the info on how to use and download the snapshot of my implementation of the Amazon Polly voice service for openhab. It’s fully functional, supports all the voices and languages, a total of 47. I built it on the current 2.1 master but it runs on openhab 2.0 which I’m using. [image] …

That’s what I’ve developed. Check out: wiki below

@hillmanr hey Robert, this is amazing and I’m excited to test it! :slight_smile: Although, your Dropbox link from Installation wiki seems to be not accessible: Error (403) It seems you don't belong here! You should probably sign in. Check out our Help Center and forums for help, or head back to ho…

@hillmanr I’ve built your addon and so far I’m experiencing fantastic results. Great job! Here’s a compiled JAR (10.06.2017) A few remarks: In PaperUI (#/configuration/services) your add-on’s name is VoiceTTS instead of PollyTTS First thing I did afer building the JAR was placing it to the /addo…

I fixed the link so the snapshot jar is accessible. I’ll look into the pull process.

Interesting development. I see Amazon Polly also supports Dutch. I will probably start using this one when integrated with OpenHAB.

works great! :slight_smile: Any idea how I can add a button/widget which read out loud the weather information via text-to-speech?

Couldn’t be easier :wink: items: Weather_Condition Weather_Temp // temperature Some_Button rule "Speak the weather" when Item Some_Button received command ON then var String weather = transform("MAP","weather_en.map", Weather_Condition.state.toString) say("Today is " + weather…

Great thanks! I’m currently working with the PaperUI, so as I think its not possible to add rules/scripts like this. I need to add this as a file, right? Sorry for this “newbie” question - but it’s the 2nd day with OH2 :smiley: But I’m loving it :slight_smile:

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hillmanr (Robert Hillman) June 10, 2017, 5:53pm 13

Thanks for the feedback, I fixed those Issues.