Friendly Names with Apostrophes...how to work with

Third party integrations Node-RED
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So I have a node that calls the TTS service and passes a {"message":"{{payload}}"} to my media player.

The payload in this instance is the friendly_name of any device_tracker.* that changes from home to not_home and vice-versa.

If there is an apostrophe in the friendly_name, text to speech only speaks the word(s) up to the apostrophe.

“Jon’s iPhone” is heard as “Jon”

How do I escape the apostrophe using a change node…or should I just change the friendly name?

2

What tts service?

3

google_translate_say

4

Personally, I’d just replace apostrophes with emtpyness. Who cares if it looks correct as long as it’s said correctly.

{{ playload.replace("'","") }}
5

Hey, that’s a simple solution.

6

IT looks like you escape the apostrophe with a backslash. So it would be Jon\'s iPhone

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer "$(gcloud auth application-default print-access-token) -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" --data "{
  'input':{
    'text':'I\'ve added the event to your calendar.'
  },
  'voice':{
    'languageCode':'en-gb',
    'name':'en-GB-Standard-A',
    'ssmlGender':'FEMALE'
  },
  'audioConfig':{
    'audioEncoding':'MP3'
  }
}" "https://texttospeech.googleapis.com/v1/text:synthesize"

From https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/basics