fixes LF localizer failure

requirements.txt

@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ psutil
 gTTS>=2.2.2
 voxpopuli
 # pyee pinned because of mycroft
-pyee==8.1.0
+pyee==8.1.0
+lingua_nostra>=0.4.3

setup.py

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='text2speech',
-    version='0.2.0a1',
+    version='0.2.1a1',
     packages=['text2speech', 'text2speech.modules'],
     url='https://github.com/HelloChatterbox/text2speech',
     license='apache',
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
                       "psutil",
                       "gTTS>=2.2.1",
                       "pyee==8.1.0",
+                      "lingua_nostra>=0.4.3"
                       "voxpopuli"],
     author_email='[email protected]',
     description='TTS engines',

text2speech/modules/mimic2_tts.py

@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
 from requests.exceptions import (
     ReadTimeout, ConnectionError, ConnectTimeout, HTTPError
 )
+
+from lingua_nostra.format import pronounce_number
+import lingua_nostra.config
+
 from urllib import parse
 import math
 import base64
@@ -16,6 +20,8 @@
 
 max_sentence_size = 170
 
+lingua_nostra.config.load_langs_on_demand = True
+
 
 def break_chunks(l, n):
     """Yield successive n-sized chunks from l."""
@@ -243,18 +249,18 @@ def _normalized_numbers(self, sentence):
             stf: normalized sentences to speak
         """
         try:
-            from lingua_franca.format import pronounce_number
             numbers = re.findall(r'-?\d+', sentence)
             normalized_num = [
-                (num, pronounce_number(int(num)))
+                (num, pronounce_number(int(num), lang=self.lang))
                 for num in numbers
             ]
             for num, norm_num in normalized_num:
                 sentence = sentence.replace(num, norm_num, 1)
         except TypeError:
             LOG.exception("type error in mimic2_tts.py _normalized_numbers()")
         except ImportError:
-            LOG.warning("lingua_franca not installed, can not normalize numbers")
+            LOG.warning(
+                "lingua_nostra not installed, can not normalize numbers")
         return sentence
 
     def get_tts(self, sentence, wav_file):
@@ -339,4 +345,3 @@ def validate_connection(self):
 
     def get_tts_class(self):
         return Mimic2
-