Tropo setting voice not working?

Question

I am trying to make this line work:

tropo.say("Some text","kate");

Documentation

But this line breaks the node.js app I am writing. If I don't specify the voice then it works fine. For example:

tropo.say("Some text");

Any tropo guru here that can help me out?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 28 '12 at 17:33

You linked to Scripting docs, but your app is WebAPI. Here is a script from those docs:

var http = require('http');
var tropo_webapi = require('tropo-webapi');

var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) {

    var tropo = new TropoWebAPI();

    // (value, as, name, required, voice)
    tropo.say("Hello, how are you?.", null, null, null, "kate");

    response.end(TropoJSON(tropo));

}).listen(8000);

https://www.tropo.com/docs/webapi/international_speaking_other_languages.htm

I believe this was resolved in IRC already, but posting the above for any other users checking it out.

Justin Dupree
Director of Customer Experience
Voxeo Labs

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 27 '12 at 22:47

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You are passing your parameter wrong. You have posted a link to the documentation, which clearly says it should be:

say("Some text",{voice:"kate"});

answered Aug 27 '12 at 22:47

Bart Platak

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I tried that multiple times and no luck. I have a few tropo.say("some text"); before that one, they all work. When it gets to that it brakes. If I take out the {voice:"kate"} it starts working again. So I instatiate tropo and then do the say like this: var tropo = new TropoWebAPI(); tropo.say("Some text ", {voice:"kate"}); and it brakes. – zumzum Aug 27 '12 at 23:01
@zumzum: Do you have any error log in console (or otherwise) associated with it? Also have you tried any other voices? Possibly for some reason "kate" is not recognized/missing. – Bart Platak Aug 27 '12 at 23:03
I don't see any error in the log. I'll keep looking but nothing that stands out...I'll try other voices – zumzum Aug 27 '12 at 23:11
@zumzum: If there's no error I'd place my bet the voice resource is not there or otherwise corrupted. – Bart Platak Aug 27 '12 at 23:22

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 28 '12 at 13:07

The voice Kate is only for British English language. What language are you specifying in your application, if any. The default is U.S English and the female voices you have available are Allison (Default), Susan, Vanessa, Veronica. Logs should give you a clue as to what is going on. And if you are still stuck ask your question in the Tropo Forum. Voxeo's Extreme Support is pretty good about providing timely and useful assistance.

Tropo setting voice not working?

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