I've had the same moment. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98024-How-to-determine-the-language-of-a-song-or-album-name
The SBS server will send an event when a song starts I think, so you could imagine having the machine say stuff from time to time. Using squeezelite I was in fact simply checking what was playing every so often and saying that, just like my SB3 which switches between displaying song and showing the analog VU meter. The script would lower the audio before speaking aloud, and bring the volume back right after. It wasn't working too bad, given it was made with a simplistic perl script querying the SBS server with the CLI. However I abandoned the project because of issues with pronunciation. Would you use an English or a Swedish speaker to speak this text: "Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Live in Stockholm 19.Jun.99 - 3. Announcement by Esbjörn" ? Believe it or not, I tried switching languages, for artist/title/album or even for words... But what I got was a patchwork of different voices, not of different accents with the same voice... The result was worse than sticking to one single voice. With mostly good results, marred with excruciatingly poor ones, unfortunately. 4 SB 3 iPeng (iPhone + iPad) SqueezeLite Squeezebox Server 7.8.1 (Debian 7.5) with plugins: CD Player, WaveInput by bpa IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Server Power Control by Gordon Harris Smart Mix by Michael Herger PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple Song Info, Song Lyrics by Erland Isaksson WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld ShairTunes by SuartUSA Local Player, BBC iPlayer, SwitchPlayer by Triode Auto Dim Display, SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101635
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