From 984834e896305c9c816ad987aec2fcd8f45601b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nate Emmert <nateemmert@MacBookAir-Linux.chipmunk-map.ts.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:35:03 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add piper error detail to TTS response for debugging

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 server.js | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/server.js b/server.js
index 92f1acf..d6ddd5d 100644
--- a/server.js
+++ b/server.js
@@ -1309,7 +1309,8 @@ app.get('/api/tts', (req, res) => {
     ], { input: text, timeout: 15000 });
 
     if (result.status !== 0 || !existsSync(cachePath)) {
-      return res.status(500).json({ error: 'TTS generation failed' });
+      console.error('piper failed:', result.status, result.stderr?.toString(), result.error);
+      return res.status(500).json({ error: 'TTS generation failed', detail: result.stderr?.toString() });
     }
   }