I personally find Apple's Allison and Samantha voices to be equal or superior to the online offerings of Amazon, Google, etc. Plus, the have the benefit of being local and not requiring a trip to the cloud for TTS. If possible, please incorporate the ability to use a locally-installed apple voice with Sonos announcements.
The terminal command, "say" has several options and if some of those could be incorporated in the plugin options that would be fantastic.
Example:
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say -v Samantha I think my voice sounds great on Sonos
Example, output to various file formats (mp3 doesn't seem to be supported):
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say -v Samantha I think my voice sounds great on Sonos -o test (no extension uses default .aiff encoding)
say -v Samantha I think my voice sounds great on Sonos -o test.ogg
say -v Samantha I think my voice sounds great on Sonos -o test.flac
As always, thanks for a fantastic plugin!
Terry