Hoping for help with announcement notification using multiple sonos speakers (announcement cuts off mid sentence 1-3 seconds in)

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Thank you for showing me that!! Very helpful!!

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You can try this instead:

      - delay:
          seconds: "{{ (message.split() | count / 2) | round(0) }}"

It counts the number of words in the message, divides by two and rounds the result. In other words, it gives each word a half-second to be spoken.

If the spoken message is occasionally cut off, just tinker with the calculation to get a slightly longer delay. For example:

      - delay:
          seconds: "{{ (message.split() | count * 0.6) | round(0) }}"
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Can you tell me what this is doing? Is this saying who and “media_player.sonos_group” are the same?

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no, it’s getting who from your mapped players. If who isn’t in the mapped players, it grabs the default one… media_player.sonos_group

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Very Nice!! I like that much better! Thank you for sharing your expertise!!

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Now I follow you. Thank you again @petro!!

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Thank you all again! I will report back in the morning if this seems to have fixed everything. (the next time the morning report announces through the house)

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If I would like to choose another speaker to announce through. Do I essentially set who as one of the variables in the top of the script you helped me with?

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it works exactly the same as your old script. No different.

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You can remove the second media_player.volume_set from your script. The script restores the original volume level when sonos.restore is executed.

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I follow you

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Ahh, nice. Thank you for this. Much more simple now from what I started out with.