Openhab 2 Squeezebox Text to speech?

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@mhilbush

While I haven’t tried this, you could funnel all your notifications through a single rule (maybe using one String item as the proxy for the say message and another String item as the proxy for the playSound mp3 file.

My goal is to have a DP for everything. This one describes what you are suggesting: Design Pattern: Gate Keeper.

@mhilbush

This only might work if the say and playSound actions block (which I think is the case).

If not then it gets complicated but the overall approach would still work. There would just need to be a way to tell how long it takes to say the text (maybe an algorithm that estimates the length based on number of characters would be close enough) or play the sound (perhaps a map file?)