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Can Homey speak?

JamesAndrewStokellJamesAndrewStokell Member
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Hello all.

I have an idea for Homey to announce who is calling by grabbing inbound caller ID's via asterisk.

Will Homey ever speak to you, and if not would it have the ability to do so, ie not playing a file to a speaker, but instead text to speach-ing to a speaker (ie it generates a file to play) or is there an opensource project out there that Homey could use to accomplish this?

Thanks, James.

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  • nikkunikku
    Homey is able to speak, you can actually see this in the demo videos :)
  • JamesAndrewStokellJamesAndrewStokell Member
    Clearly I'm behind in my updates then, awesome.

    But still the other part of my question stands - can I tell homey what to say and it'll spit it out somewhere?

    Where do I find these demo videos, or are they just listed in updates?

    Thanks, James.
  • nikkunikku
    edited March 2015
    I think they are on their facebook page, maybe on the kickstarter too. In the flow editor demos you can see them specifying what Homey should say (they type it in) so yes, it appears you could create your own custom responses.
  • EmileEmile Administrator, Athom
    Yes, you can make Homey speak yourself by flow editor, or by programming: Homey.say( ... )
  • RobinVanKekemRobinVanKekem Member
    Or a REST API call from outside the device:
    https://developers.athom.nl/docs/
  • brot84brot84 Member
    Does support at the Release Time the German Language speak Output too? Thanks for your answer
  • EmileEmile Administrator, Athom
    Jawohl
  • btwvincebtwvince Member

    Just a small question. Will Homey be able to detect which language is used?
    For example in my case I speak dutch and my girlfriend speaks French. It would be easy if Homey could detect the language and replied in that language.

  • DieterKoblenzDieterKoblenz Member
    edited November 2015

    It was probably on here before, but what TTS engine will you use for Homey?

  • BumblezBumblez Member

    DieterKoblenz said:
    It was probably on here before, but what TTS engine will you use for Homey?

    Back in May, Emile said it was Ivona (ivona.com). Don't know if they've managed to switch to a better one by now...

  • Fire69Fire69 Member

    Dutch - Ruben sounds pretty good. But I'd prefer a flemish voice if possible :-)

  • JaapPeltJaapPelt Member
    edited November 2015

    btwvince said:
    Just a small question. Will Homey be able to detect which language is used?
    For example in my case I speak dutch and my girlfriend speaks French. It would be easy if Homey could detect the language and replied in that language.

    I prefer to have my phone set to an English interface, but that means I cannot use Dutch voice recognition or dutch text-to-speech for navigation. I would really like if Homey would be able to configure UI, voice recognition and TTS separately.

    Also, searching for an english movie title while it is set to Dutch generally doesn't work very well. I'm curious to see how Homey does it, but expecting Homey to do better than Android would not be reasonable. (Still keeping my finger crossed though)

  • DanielBartholomeusDanielBartholomeus Member
    edited November 2015

    @Fire69 +1 :-)

  • DaneeDeKruyffDaneeDeKruyff Member

    JaapPelt said:

    I would really like if Homey would be able to configure UI, voice recognition and TTS separately.

    +1

  • Fire69Fire69 Member

    JaapPelt said:

    I would really like if Homey would be able to configure UI, voice recognition and TTS separately.

    +1
    (lots of +1'ing going on lately :-P )

  • EmileEmile Administrator, Athom

    I'm sorry guys, but Homey can be one language at a time.

    Maybe we can change this later when we introduce extended multi-user support (together with triggering speech per user), but that requires some good thinking so I'm not 100% sure about that.

  • JaapPeltJaapPelt Member

    Acceptable. I would not do it if it doesn't work perfectly. good voice recognition is hard already and multilanguage only makes it harder. Besides, there are more important things on the to-do list.

  • DaneeDeKruyffDaneeDeKruyff Member

    Yes, acceptable, I think multi-user support is most important for the succes in at least my (our) household. For us backers the geek factor is enough to like homey, for my wife and son it 'just has to work' for them to want to use it.

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