Playback of TTS only works 10% of the time on VPE | Home Assistant | Page 1

plush oyster Mar 11, 2025, 10:50 PM

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Can someone help me debug this? I ask VPE a question, and the debug log shows it understood and tried to respond perfectly, and then I click "play audio" from the debug section from my phone, it works, but I have to ask VPE like 10 times before it responds

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For some more data, I just tried playing "testing 1" through "testing 20" one after the other using the announce action, and only one of them worked

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Then I just tried the announce action with a different message and it worked on the 18th attempt

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And to top it off, I just used the announce action 5 times in a row with unique messages each time, and it worked every time... What is going on...

tribal sierra Mar 12, 2025, 2:59 AM

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Sounds like maybe something broke in the tts cache, maybe try calling the tts cache clear from dev tools?

plush oyster Mar 12, 2025, 10:23 PM

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That did not seem to do the trick

tribal sierra Mar 13, 2025, 2:06 AM

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Hmm maybe something with wifi connectivity? Are you using cloud or piper?

plush oyster Mar 16, 2025, 2:48 PM

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Using cloud. Am I correct in thinking that pressing "play audio" in the debug screen plays the actual file that TTS generated? If so, it works every time on mobile, so it seems that it is just VPE that has trouble playing it

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I have two more VPEs arriving tomorrow, so I will do some testing with all three to gather more data

#Playback of TTS only works 10% of the time on VPE