I have a voice PE and a rpi satalite. The RPI plays back responses from piper just fine but the voice PE does not. I checked the Voice Assistant Debug for both and notice the big difference is that the rpi PIPER produces a WAV file but for voice PE it produces a FLAC. If i put the link to the wav file into a browser or VLC it plays back, however if i put the link for the FLAC into VLC it errors and if i put it into a browser I get what appears to be the ASCII resprenstation of the binary data. I suspect it is an issue with my HA server not streaming the FLAC correctly but not sure how to correct that.
#Issue with voice PE and response playback
lost prawn
cloud axle
Voice PE doesn't produce any files. The TTS file, created by Piper, gets converted by HA to FLAC format, so it's easier for PE to play, and more standardized.
lost prawn
i understand that, but that
the FLAC file produced by HA is not playable apparently. even in VLC
If I take the URL from here, prepend of course with my HA url
And use either a browser or VLC it will not play back. However if i take one from my RPI request that is a WAV it works fine.
cloud axle
Try restarting Piper, and make sure you have correct voice set up.
lost prawn
no change
pretty sure piper is fine since like i said my rpi satellite works fine. I think the issue is with HA doing the conversion from wav to flac for the Voice PE
actually i was able to get the produced FLAC file by quicktime after manually downloading it via the direct URL above. So now more confused why Voice PE is not working