[Feature Request] - Managing Google TTS

[schmurtzm]

Google TTS is a killer feature for ESP due to the multilingual and quality of voices.
Following issue #395 : it seems not possible to use Google TTS url like a classical mp3 stream due to a buffering problem at the end of the play.

Easy way to reproduce the problem : take "StreamMP3FromHTTP" example, and replace :
const char *URL="http://kvbstreams.dyndns.org:8000/wkvi-am";
with
const char *URL="http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&q=bonjour&tl=fr&client=tw-ob&ttsspeed=1";

This is a record of the sound that I obtain.

Managing Google TTS seems more complex than what I was thinking...
I found this I2S library which support Google TTS: ESP32-audioI2S

As you can see here the author has made a complex function to use Google TTS. This could be a good source of inspiration to make a new AudioFileSourceGoogleTTS.h 😅

Interesting facts : I also tested to play Google TTS on this library without using this specific function, just with the URL of Google Translate and the result was similar to ESP8266Audio : at the end of the play there is a buffer problem. It doesn't hang the ESP on this library but it means that Google TTS send the mp3 file in a particular way which require more work than a classic mp3 stream.

[FedericoBusero]

Also remark following change in ESP32-audioI2S which might inspire to detect the end of the stream

schreibfaul1/ESP32-audioI2S@ed13136#diff-6033949d768051c96b2a380edec84a3e1cbe58b3a94e41aae408c6a8f8bbc2b2

[schmurtzm]

After some investigation, I've found where is the problem :
as you can see here in ESP32-audioI2S , he makes a special exception for TTS : "tts has one chunk only".

There are some issues about chunk management in ESP8266audio, most of them for ICY streams (=shoutcast).
When we look at chunk management in ESP8266audio, we quickly find a pull request from yoav-klein which improves a lot the result with google TTS : now it hangs few seconds (about 11 seconds) instead of minutes !

From what I understand, there are some data in the mp3 stream which indicate the size of the file. I think that it is what is done here in ESP32-audioI2S library.

@yoav-klein & @DSangyy , I saw that you have working on the chunk management, if you have some time to take a look it will be very welcome ;)
Thank you very much 😉

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