I am using OH 4.2 and thought I would try out the TTS options. I have installed picotts binding and I have made it work and I can send text to voice to a google nest (chromecast binding) and it works BUT the annoying thing is I cannot find anywhere that I can make the voice as an announcement. I.E …

I got a google nest mini dedicated to do announcements and chimes. Its mic is turned off.

I have 4 nest mini but they all do internal broadcasts as wife is in her shed and I am in mine so we use it as an intercom and they stream music. The broadcast works as an announcement but I cannot get the announcements to work with openHab TTS.

So the problem is that it works, but it stops your music, right? AFAIK nobody’s managed to solve this problem and make the music resume. Hence my solution of just adding a nest mini dedicated for TTS / notifications, in addition to the one you’re using for music playing. But this is a different sce…

Support of music resuming has to be implemented by bindings when doable. As an example, it is possible with Sonos devices.

[image] jimtng: So the problem is that it works, but it stops your music, right? Correct. Maybe I will have to use the google text to speech. You would think that would work? I didn’t want to go down that path but maybe have to but I wanted to know if anyone else managed to get it to work.

I don’t have sonos. :frowning_face:

[image] Lolodomo: Support of music resuming has to be implemented by bindings when doable. How was it done? [image] ubeaut: [image] jimtng: So the problem is that it works, but it stops your music, right? Correct. Yup… so use a dedicated nest mini. Wait for a cheap sale, I got …

[image] jimtng: How was it done? Stop the source then play notification and finally resume the source.

There is a stop on the chromecast binding but no resume, so how can it be done? I tried pausing the chromecast and then playing again after the text to speech played but that didn’t work either.

[image] ubeaut: There is a stop on the chromecast binding but no resume, so how can it be done? Yeah, that’s why it doesn’t work with Chromecast–a resume command doesn’t exist. Here’s a possible workaround that I don’t put much faith in: Add an unbound switch item and expose it to Google A…

Text to speech as an announcement. Is this possible?

Add-ons Text-to-Speech

jjmeseguer (jjmeseguer) July 26, 2024, 9:51pm 12

Hi,
You can try this:

It’s a little complicated because it involves spinning up a Home Assistant instance, but if you follow it step by step it should work.
Regards.