DandyDialer version 1.8.0 brings improvements to the TTS(text-to-speech) system. Also, contact and DNC lists can now be exported to csv format.

TTS Improvements

DandyDialer now supports all the TTS voices and languages supported by Amazon Polly.

New TTS languages and voices

Here is the complete list of supported languages:

  • Arabic
  • Chinese, Mandarin
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English (Australia)
  • English (British)
  • English (Indian)
  • English (New Zealand)
  • English (South African)
  • English (US)
  • English (Welsh)
  • French
  • French (Canadian)
  • German
  • Hindi
  • Icelandic
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Brazilian)
  • Portuguese (European)
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Spanish (European)
  • Spanish (Mexican)
  • Spanish (US)
  • Swedish
  • Turkish
  • Welsh

DandyDialer now also supports SSML hints. You should directly put valid SSML tags in the middle of a text, without enclosing the whole text in <speak></speak> tags. Note that not all voices support SSML tags. You can learn more about the SSML feature from here:

Amazon Polly SSML documentation

Contact Export

You can now export both contact lists and custom DNC lists from DandyDialer. There is a new button named Export List in the contact list context panel.

Export list button

Besides all the contact information, you can also export call counts and their DNC status.

Export list dialogue

There is also a custom mode to customize the columns to export.

Custom list export

Beware that, if your list is quite big, it might take some time before the download begins.

Titon Barua

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Titon Barua

Co-founder and Lead Developer

Titon is a software developer and architect with decades of experience in various web technologies, both in front-end and back-end. He prides himself in making robust and user-friendly software. An avid pythonista for a long time, these days, Titon mostly writes Clojure and Clojurescript.