Speech

Hi guys

I have purchased a component to enable text to speech
So now weather display will be able to speak the weather, and will be able to create .wav files too, which could be uploaded to your web site, or used with 3rd party answer phone software
VWS has added this, so i thought i better keep with the competition
I just need to find time to put it into weather display
Cheers
Brian

see a test example here:
http://www.weather-display.com/download/testing.wav

i.e you could here the weather as your web page loads

you can choose different voices too

Brian, the link transfers to http://217.160.44.141/ftp/testing.wav and is a dead link.

try again now, it was still uploading
its ok for me at the moment
i think i have fixed your humidity thing greg
uploading a new one now while i go and feed out some hay

Hi guys

I have purchased a component to enable text to speech
So now weather display will be able to speak the weather, and will be able to create .wav files too, which could be uploaded to your web site, or used with 3rd party answer phone software
VWS has added this, so i thought i better keep with the competition
I just need to find time to put it into weather display
Cheers
Brian

HEHE! It reminds me of my first Soundblaster card with the “talking Parrot” and something call “Dr. Sibatso”…but it is a neat feature.

Hey Brian, I have been out of town for work all week and thats why the station was down…my pup chewed the Cat-5 to the shop! Its fixed now and I downloaded the latest ver just now. I have the webcam set to on and updating the website every thirty minutes. I have to leave again tommorow night for about another week so we’ll see how long it goes…or maybe the pup again!!!

Hi Lane

there are other voices that sound better than that one
I will use one of those, and upload again
There is a new 8.99c that might fix the problem you were getting (so you didnt get that error again, it was just the dogs fault?)
and greg , please try a new 8.99c now for the huimdity thing
with this speech, you can have WD speek the weather to you say every minute, so you dont even have to be looking at the weather page, and you could even hear it from another room if you set the speaker loud enough

Brian,
Can you get it to upload the wav file, then have a button or link on the main, WD created page, like mine, to listen to it??? that would be a cool feature!

Yep, the puppy did chew the cable at some point this week but WD did crash before that with the “out of bounds(0)” error. But that was before you fixed the multiple creating of the webcam image. I have all those tabbed to off but I do have the webcam upload on and the file create on. So, we’ll see what happens now.

About the sound, I was just picking but howabout a FEMALE voice! I would like that on my website! :twisted:

http://home.sc.rr.com/reelhouse

yes, you can have it uplaoded, and have it play as people view your web site
and yes there are female voices to use

i have it working, preliminary, it tells you the conditions each minute
in vers 8.99d, ready now
see this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/msagent/downloads.htm#tts

to download the needed drivers

and create a file called speech.txt where you have weather display installed
and then each minute it says the temperature etc
it just says as it is displayed on screen, as a test, but i need to format it better
i will add ability to upload a file etc later
this is just the begining!

Thought you guys might like to hear my version of the talking weather station. You wanted a female voice… you got one… :slight_smile: It uses SAPI 5 ATT Voices. http://www.skibumsplace.com/weather.htm

Lemme know what you think.

is that with homeseer?
its sounds great
you hsould be able to download and use those new sapi 5 voices with weather display
anyone get it the voice to work with weather display??
there are other language drivrs, but I know stefan is having trouble with them…

Yes that is using the Homeseer plug in. I am working on a voice web page now. I will post it IF I get it completed.

Brian,
I haven’t been able to get the speech to work with wd, but I’m not a computer whiz, so its probably just my mistake. I downloaded and installed the driver from the link in your earlier post, and created a speech.txt file in my wdisplay main directory, but I didn’t have any luck. I think this is a awesome idea for wd, and keep up the excellent work!!

Drew R

Hi

I have it much easier to setup now
Download a new 8.99d
then under setup, at the very bottom, see weather speech ( i think weather talk will be better) setup

Then you can change the voice driver, output device etc, and turn it on
Then you might be able to get it to go
:lol:

Brian,
That’s pretty coooool!!! Now, can we adjust the timing when it speaks, or did I miss that somewhere in the setup process?

do you have it working lar?

:smiley: Sure do. Works like a charm. I downloaded/installed the necessary speech files plus the XP update for them. Fired up WD, selected the voice and it all started working just fine…

OK I would like it if a few people could browse to my weather page, and test out the new speech buttons.

http://www.skibumsplace.com/weather.htm

Please let me know if it does not work, or the intervals need adjusting.

There are 3 audio links.
Current COnditions
Atlantic Hurricane Outlook
River Flow

– This is only a test–

Also, these links go away after 9pm local time (so the speech does not wake me up).
They reappear after 7:00am local time

Brian,
When I click on weather talk, I get this message…
“Access violation at address 00439797 in module ‘WEATHERD.EXE’. Read of address FFFFFFFF.”

Running win 98 with WMII. Just wondering if I have done something wrong. Keep up the great work.

Drew R

Hmmm

Like I said, this is only a test…

I made a firewall adjustment, see if it goes ok now…