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[123 (Taras)]

@Red1

The music just fades into the background.

That’s because tts.speak and the legacy tts.google_translate_say actually use media_player.play_media and automatically set its announce option to true.

When announce is true, the TTS announcement plays over the existing music. As a result, there’s no change in the media_player’s state (it’s always playing).

If you want the previous behavior, where the existing music is stopped and then the announcement is played, you’ll have to use media_player.play_media directly and set announce to false or simply exclude the announce option (it defaults to false).

I posted an example here:

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

It’s my understanding that a call to tts.speak or tts.<whatever> gets converted to a call to media_player.play_media and its announce option is automatically set to true. Users have reported that when announce is true, the player doesn’t report playing while it’s playing the announcement. In other words, while playing the announcement, it doesn’t change state to playing and then, when it’s done, to either idle or paused but just remains either idle/paused. That makes it challenging to determi…