Introducing DCS Simple Text To Speech (DCS-STTS)

[Dangerzone]

On 1/14/2023 at 10:49 PM, Elphaba said:

They won't. It's a definite no. 

That's not a reason... that's just a statement.  (Although you did respond later with the reasons, but I couldn't resist).

From what I can gather you just want to use the KISS methology, which is fair enough. I thought maybe they were using 'in game' coms, etc where you'd be doing the same stuff anyway (changing channels) - but it seems you just all use something 100% external and independent like discord.

That being the case, it could be possible to have some sort of text-to-speech option that injects audio into a discord channel as opposed to SRS, but that would be another thread/topic now.

FWIW - re (C) - SRS automatically prompts to auto-update if someone is on an earlier version so you can probably cross that off your list too.   (b) and (e) make the most sense to me. While (a) sounds plausible - SRS once setup has been the most stable thing I've used, and has never given me grief with DCS bugs that I can ever recall. (And I tend to be tech support for a lot of people - but I still get your reasons).

For me, after using SRS - especially after using it with Overlord-bot, they were well worth getting sorted out - but I fully understand YMMV - and if you are going to be the go-to person for every single person's 'tech support' - it loses fun real quick. 

Good luck with your mission making and thanks for coming back with the reasons for us curious nosy people.  

 

Edited January 16, 2023 by Dangerzone

[TEMPEST.114]

@Ciribob

Just FYI. 

I don't have Viacom installed. I removed it eons ago.

Just found this stuff whilst poking around looking for something else...
 

[Wizard_VVS]

How can I connect DCS-SR-ExternalAudio.exe in PowerShell to specific IP? Because after

.\DCS-SR-ExternalAudio.exe -t "Hello Moosers" -f 255 -m AM -c 2

it tries to connect to 127.0.0.1 but I need other IP.

[GumidekCZ]

Have any of you experiencing repeated (around 2 minutes interval) system32\cmd.exe window popup over DCS game for a sec and then dissappears. No error messages stay up. Is this OK? Can the cmd window be minimezed from start to not popup over DCS?

Edit: the interval is equal to ATIS information.

Edited September 9, 2023 by GumidekCZ

[Zyll]

hi all,

Is there an example of what the Google TTS credentials json file looks like? 

Thanks in advance,

Zyll

On 9/9/2023 at 7:39 AM, GumidekCZ said:

Have any of you experiencing repeated (around 2 minutes interval) system32\cmd.exe window popup over DCS game for a sec and then dissappears. No error messages stay up. Is this OK? Can the cmd window be minimezed from start to not popup over DCS?

Edit: the interval is equal to ATIS information.

 

the CMD window popup is the TTS function being called (making an external application call). So that's totally to be expected.

[Zyll]

I was able to answer my own question by going here and following the instructions for creating a Service Account.
https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/before-you-begin

I actually prefer the way rkusa/DATIS did it, by using an API key. That way I could restrict the usage to a specific IP address (in this case the IP of the dedicated server). Having the credential json means that anyone could use it completely unrestricted. Maybe something to consider in the future.

[Maxxox]

Hello. Is there a way to stop an MP3 playback immediately with a script command??  

[TEMPEST.114]

8 hours ago, Maxxox said:

Hello. Is there a way to stop an MP3 playback immediately with a script command??  

Depends how you got the sound playing. 

If it's from a beacon and on a loop, just stop it, or make it play a tiny 'silent' mp3 file. 

There's a reason I've written my own lua sound system - the DCS one is pretty awful. 

[Racoon-1-1]

Hey everyone,

I am also having problems with getting STTS to work.

0. I did port-forwarding in my router (5002, 5003 for SRS. 4380, 10308, 27015 - 27030, 27036 - 27037 for DCS) --> But I connect SRS just via localhost and I also select my localhost server entry from the multiplayer server list. So this is probably not the problem.

1. I start the dedicated DCS Server

2. I start SRS Server

3. I start SRS Client (and connect to my SRS server)

4. I join my DCS server via Multiplayer

5. SRS works flawlessly, but the STTS Do Scripts just do absolutely nothing and it doesn't matter if I want to use actual Text To Speech or just play an .mp3/.ogg.

 

[Beardy McWhisky]

Is there any way to minimize the command shell that pops up? We stream from our server, and need to stream the screen (not just DCS) to get SRS audio.

[Maverick87Shaka]

On 7/22/2024 at 9:31 AM, Beardy McWhisky said:

Is there any way to minimize the command shell that pops up? We stream from our server, and need to stream the screen (not just DCS) to get SRS audio.

Try this, change os.execute command param.


@Ciribob any chance to have also Microsoft Azure voice available? (I can provide key for develop purpose)

[Maverick87Shaka]

7 hours ago, Maverick87Shaka said:

@Ciribob any chance to have also Microsoft Azure voice available? (I can provide key for develop purpose)

testing the addition in DCS-SR-ExternalAudio client. (native windows voice vs Azure)
 

EDIT:
After some test, manage to get it working directly from DCS using this script:

 

Edited August 31, 2024 by Maverick87Shaka

[Muas]

Hi all.

Did anyone had success avoiding the cmd window popup when running this script, modified as per this

I can't get rid of that annoying popup window... am I  forgetting something here?

Thanks.

Edited November 7, 2024 by Muas

[Muas]

Nevermind, got it working through GRPC, problem solved, no more window popups.

Works a treat in 2D and VR, both with DCS dedicated server and regular DCS installations, thanks!

Edited November 8, 2024 by Muas