Looks like they are serious and have given fair warning 
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Drats
But I guess like so many things nowadays:
There are alternatives.
If this is for TTS - I use the TTS ultimate node
I'm not sure if I can use that as I am not in the Sonos environment.
But I'll look at that and see if it may do what I need.
I note that you have to save the tts output to file before playing to the bluetooth speaker, so how is that file output from node red, as this was Trying_to Learn's the issue with using Watson?
Sorry
here is my flow output
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But how does reading the file output it to a bluetooth speaker?
OK
I was only posting to say I use the TTS ultimte node to do the text-to-speech conversion
I wasn't aiming to solve the whole issue
I'll back away quietly
I was wondering whether you had an alternative solution for output. The output from TTS is an mp3 in your flow, can it be output from TTS as a wav?
Thanks for the info on that node.
I am a bit stuck with how / where you set the voice though.
I am seeing the node config with the warning Any changes in this means you have to restart node-red
This is what I see though:
Which is similar to your second picture.
Thanks.
Though I am not at that stage yet, the player has other options.
I'm not at that page yet, but there may be options to make that part different and send a WAV or MP3 file out.
A simple setup using TTS ultimate node and ffplay (included if you have ffmpeg installed) working fine in my test setup. I can send text messages via MQTT and it is played fine on the remote computer
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Thanks.
I seem to be missing a lot of things these days.
So I have ffmpeg installed on the machine and I have a similar thing set up so I can send words to be said on the existing tts system.
I import your flow and deploy it.
Press the Hello world button. SILENCE.
Sorry, but I'm not understanding why it isn't doing anything.
As a check: I try it on THIS machine (the big / powerful NUC - which also has ffmpeg installed)
Run it and also SILENCE.
The audio on this machine is working also.
So I don't understand what I am missing.
This is a screenshot of what I see (if the debug is active) and I press the button.
(ignore the top few messages shown)
P.S.
Ok, on one machine I am seeing a config not set and it is pointing to the tts node.
But not on the second machine.
UPDATE:
Changed the exec node to the one that was working with the other TTS, and now it is talking to me.
(I'll call it quits here. I fear this has dragged on far too long now.)
I've got the TTS working - other problems exist but they are outside the scope of this thread.
THANKS TO ALL WHO POSTED!
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