Google Home Audio & TTS
Library to play audio and text via TTS on Google Home devices.
Table Of Contents
Installation
Use npm to install this module:
$ npm install google-home-audio-tts
Usage
The library uses callback-style. Just initialize a new instance for a single device, it can be reused at any time.
let GoogleHomeAVT = require('google-home-audio-tts');let device = new GoogleHomeAVT('192.168.2.34', 'en'); // play text via ttsdevice.tts('Hello!', result => { // result: // - media object on success // - false on error}); // play audiodevice.audio('http://domain.com/file.mp3', result => { // result: // - media object on success // - false on error});
Configuration
Some options can be changed on any time:
device.setIp('192.168.2.123'); // change ip addressdevice.setLanguage('de'); // set language for ttsdevice.setVolume(1); // change volume before playback, value between 0 and 1device.setRestoreVolume(true); // restore original volume after playbackdevice.setStreamType("BUFFERED"); // stream time, BUFFERED or LIVEdevice.setTtsTimeout(1000); // set timeout for tts requestdevice.setTtsSpeed(1); // set tts playback speed
Limitations
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This library explicit don't support MDNS! Use fixed IP addresses for your devices. MDNS causes problems on different systems. If there is really need to use MDNS, just add this before by yourself and pass the IP to this library.
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TTS texts has a limit of 200 characters.
Bugs / Feature request
Please report bugs and feel free to ask for new features directly on GitHub.
License
Minoss is dual-licensed under MIT and GPL-2.0 license.
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