Google tts (via Nabu Cassa) broken for me from this morning. Only change is to latest OS release

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As of this morning text to speech on my Google devices (via Nabu Casa) has stopped working. No errors, just nothing is spoken on my google devices when I call it. Just see this in the log:

2021-08-07 13:14:42 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script.websocket_api_script] websocket_api script: Running websocket_api script
2021-08-07 13:14:42 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script.websocket_api_script] websocket_api script: Executing step call service

The tts service still works for other devices, such as my squeezebox radio

I’m still on HA Core 2021.7.4 I did upgrade HA OS to the latest version (HA OS 6.2 from 6.1) last night, but it seems unlikely this is the cause?

I signed out of, and then into the Nabu Casa account but that made no difference.

In other (none recent) posts for this issue, I read about adding external and internal urls in Config->General. Have tried that (and restarted), but this made no difference.

Any ideas?

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I have now updated to the Core 2021.8.3 (latest currently) on the off-chance it might fix it. Still broken, and still no errors.

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This explains a problem I have been trying to debug as well. It seems broken for me too. The chromecast indicates a connect, but no audio plays.

It’s easy to duplicate - go to the cloud option in configuration, and try playing a TTS sample message to a google cast device.

This used to work in 2021.6, but seems to have broken when I went to 2021.8.

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So I don’t think it’s related to the software version. I run HA in a VM< and reverted back to a 2021.6.6 snapshot, and TTS didn’t work there either.

So I think something is broken on the cloud side of the TTS engine.

Are others seeing any issues?

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Yeah, this seems more likely. I’d have expected to seem more people complaining though…

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Have just unlinked, then relinked NabuCasa in the Google Home app, but still no joy.

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In fact, it’s worse now. I see that my google devices show as “unavailable” now…

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Working again now thanks to cogneato on Discord. I had to set my internal and external address in Configuration → General. I don’t quite understand why, as this was previously working with then unset, but the main thing is all good now!