OpenTX & ETHOS TTS Automate EN & NL Soundpacks
Small writeup how to Create OpenTX & ETHOS soundpacks with TTS Automate and Batch edit the audio files with Audacity.
OpenTX and ETHOS are provided with the possibility to use sound packs. These are audio (wav) files, and you can play these from ETHOS and OpenTX. Like many have heard on the field :-)
To put together a sound pack quickly and easily, there is a program called TTS Automate
Website: https://www.ttsautomate.com
This program converts a piece of text to audio and saves it in a specified folder and name.
The spoken language can also be selected.
It looks like this.
Line number
Folder / Each line contains the path where audio file is stored.
I always maintain the structure of the SD card of OpenTX directly
Filename / the name of the audio file (note! From OpenTX v2.1.x a maximum of 6 characters are allowed, if larger they are ignored by OpenTX)
Phrase to Speak / Here the text that the audio file should receive. Occasionally you may have to play phonetically to get things properly spoken.
See inter alia lines 201 and 204 :-)
Play / Plays the file, and the file is created directly in the specified path
To the right of the screen:
Open Phrase file / here you can select the .PSV file
Select Output Directory / Where eventually the output including the specified path structure should be placed.
Create new Phrase File / Create a new project with this
TTS Provider / Select the Text To Speech Provider here. (To date, only Amazon Polly works correctly)
Voice / Select the voice here (I myself use Dutch Ruben, and I use Matthew for English)
Settings of TTS Automate so that they work well with OpenTX.
Most important here are the Voice Options
Encode MP3 to WAV (checked)
Sample Rate: 32000Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Step 1 - First copy the TrimSilence.ny plugin to the Audacity/Plug-Ins folder
Step 2 - ADD the TrimSilence plugin in Audacity
Step 3 - Enable the TrimSilence plugin in Audacity
Step 4 - Create/Edit the Chain - Add TrimSilence, ChangeTempo(if you like) and final Export as WAV and all paramaters
Step 5 - Apply the chain to the generated files (editted files will showup in the same folder but in folder "cleaned"
