Extension:Phonos

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Phonos Release status: beta
Implementation	Tag
Description	Text to speech parser
Author(s)	Community Tech Team
Latest version	0.1.0
Compatibility policy	Master maintains backward compatibility.
MediaWiki	>= 1.43
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Download Git master browse repository (Phabricator · GitHub) commit history repository contributors (GitHub) code review README
Help	Help:Extension:Phonos
Parameters $wgPhonosApiKeyGoogle $wgPhonosWikibaseProperties $wgPhonosInlineAudioPlayerMode $wgPhonosFileBackend $wgPhonosFileExpiry $wgPhonosIPARenderingEnabled $wgPhonosWikibaseUrl $wgPhonosFileBackendDirectory $wgPhonosApiProxy $wgPhonosApiEndpointGoogle $wgPhonosApiEndpointLarynx $wgPhonosEngine $wgPhonosLame $wgPhonosEspeak $wgPhonosPath
Tags {{#phonos:}}
Hooks used ParserFirstCallInit
Quarterly downloads	8 (Ranked 128th)
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Issues	Open tasks · Report a bug

The Phonos extension is a Community Tech project for implementing the Audio links that play on click wish, and later the IPA Audio Renderer wish, from the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.

The IPA audio rendering and text to speech functionality was never released to production and should be considered unstable and unsupported.

Installation

• Download and move the extracted Phonos folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/Phonos
• Only when installing from Git, run Composer to install PHP dependencies, by issuing composer install --no-dev in the extension directory. (See task T173141 for potential complications.)
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'Phonos' );
  

• If you're using the eSpeak or Larnyx engines, you will need to install Lame on your system, and set $wgPhonosLame accordingly.
•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration parameters

$wgPhonosInlineAudioPlayerMode

Disables IPA rendering and only allows playing of existing audio from Commons

$wgPhonosEngine

Which engine to use. One of espeak (default), larynx, or google.

$wgPhonosApiEndpointLarynx

The API endpoint to use for the Larynx engine.

$wgPhonosApiEndpointGoogle

The API endpoint to use for the Google engine.

$wgPhonosApiKeyGoogle

The API key for the Google engine.

$wgPhonosApiProxy

HTTP proxy to use for API requests. If not set, $wgHTTPProxy will be used.

$wgPhonosFileBackend

Which file backend to use for caching. Defaults to a custom Phonos backend using FSFileBackend.

$wgPhonosFileBackendDirectory

Which directory to use for file caching, if $wgPhonosFileBackend is false. Defaults to $wgUploadDirectory.

$wgPhonosEspeak

Path to the eSpeak executable. Defaults to /usr/bin/espeak

$wgPhonosLame

Path to the Lame executable used for converting WAV to MP3. Defaults to /usr/bin/lame

$wgPhonosPath

Relative URL path to where Phonos files are publicly available. Defaults to "$wgUploadPath/$wgDBname-phonos"

$wgPhonosWikibaseUrl

The URL to a Wikibase installation, including the $wgArticlePath and trailing slash.

$wgPhonosWikibaseProperties

An object containing the following:

• wikibasePronunciationAudioProp: Property for pronunciation audio.
• wikibaseLangNameProp: Property for language of work or name.
• wikibaseIETFLangTagProp: Property for IETF language tag.

$wgPhonosCommonsMediaUrl

URL to Special:FilePath on a shared media repository including the trailing slash.

Usage

For all usage information, see the extension's help page.

Maintenance

Phonos does not automatically delete files that have become orphaned. Over time, these files can build up and needlessly occupy space on your file system. To assist with this problem, Phonos offers two maintenance scripts:

countOrphanedFiles.php

This script will count orphaned files. You can pass the --delete flag to also delete the files.

On wiki farms you can use the --wikis flag to specify which wikis to process, passing in the global IDs (database names). If not provided, the script will loop through all wikis as specified in the sites table, and process any where Phonos is installed. If the sites table is not populated, the script will act only on the current wiki.

deleteOldPhonosFiles.php

This script will delete all Phonos files created before the date specified with the --date option. This is useful if you for instance changed the engine, and want to force recreation of Phonos files.

Adding a new TTS engine to Phonos

Phonos was designed to be agnostic to the engine used. The only requirement for TTS engines is that they accept SSML.

Create a new subclass of Engine and implement the required methods. Note that Engine::getSupportedLanguages() returns null by default. If there is a way to programmatically fetch (or even hard code) the list of languages, this method should be overridden in the new subclass.

If the engine doesn't produce output in MP3 format, then Lame should be used to convert the file to MP3, such that getAudioData() returns only raw MP3 data. That method should also be responsible for persisting the file to disk using Engine::persistAudio().

Metrics and instrumentation

This section only applies to the WMF installation of Phonos

Various metrics are collected and stored in statsv, while errors in Phonos processing are stored with statsd:

• https://w.wiki/6Zno – production dashboard
• https://w.wiki/6Znm – beta cluster

The click and replay events are logged by PhonosButton.prototype.track(), which can be used to track more things as desired. See phab:T315091 for more details.

On the backend, anything that throws a PhonosException during processing will be captured and recorded on the above dashboards. The responsible pages are also categorized in the category "Pages with Phonos rendering errors", as specified by the MediaWiki:Phonos-error-category interface page.

See also

• Extension:Wikispeech