Issue with TTS to sonos not speaking english

[nallan (Nick Allan)]

Hi
Hope someone can suggest what is going on here.
I have Sonos speakers that are detected by Smartthings. I’m basically just trying to test the TTS function to send various text strings to my Sonos speakers. For some reason the text that is being spoken isn’t English. As far as I can tell, the TTS is being generated from amazon polly and looking through the languages it sounds like its speaking welsh.
I’m just using the speak text action in webcore.
I’m in Australia and can’t work out why it would be speaking a non-English language. Has anyone got any suggestions on what would be causing this?
What determines the tts language that will be used?

appreciate any suggestions anyone can provide.

Nick

[GSzabados (Gabor Szabados)]

There is this topic, how you can define the language for Polly in a SmartApp.

textToSpeech with a non-default language of Polly

Hi, I am trying to get Turkish responses/announcements on my Sonos speakers. I’ve learnt that Amazon’s Polly supports Turkish text-to-speech. And the command textToSpeech can take a second parameter as the language. For example, following command in ST makes TTS of text “merhaba” in Turkish with voice of Filiz. textToSpeech(“merhaba.”, “Filiz”) if I pass a text with special Turkish characters to this command, it fails with following error: 1:05:24 AM: error com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.AmazonS3Exception: The request signature we calculated does not match the signature you provided. Check your key and signing method. (Service: Amazon S3; Status Code: 403; Error Code: SignatureDoesNotMatch; Request ID: 83E07B6C8684F4E1), S3 Extended Request ID: Cnh3ckkGNuKXH8QD6dux2JzTEeBAJz7mNB…

The default shouldn’t be Welsh. Otherwise this might be answered quicker if you ask it on the WebCore community pages.