I am developing android application for illiterate people. One of the feature of this application is to read the text that application produces. So I am in need of the Text To Speech System. I found some of the Frameworks that suits me theoritically like
Flite
eSpeak
I even found Flite port into the Android. happyalu/Flite-TTS-Engine-for-Android
The application user will not be able to understand english. My problem is now
Which framework to use?
How to add new languge in these frameworks?
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I'm new at developing TTS for android and I don't quite understand a part of it. My company uses a TTS engine and we are trying to write an application so it can be used as a text to speech engine(not in the app but by the phone). I've read through several threads on other sites such as:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/tts-for-android/EzXyyqG7cvw
my question is this: if I create an app, which uses the TTS engine in the app, will it also be included as a preferred TTS engine in settings->Language_and_input->Text-to-speech_options? or do I have the create something specific for the TTS engine to be used as a preferred TTS engine?
Yes, you can create a TTS Engine which is available as the default on the device.
There are manifest additions you have to add and Intents you must respond to, so the best way to understand these is to look at the Robot Speak app in the SDK samples
It's quite straight forward from there.
The user gets to set his preferred engine. You can use a specific engine inside your app of course, but only the user can set default services. This is to prevent malware apps from specifying themselves as the default regardless of what the user wants. You will show up as a possible TTS engine if you follow the rules and set up your manifest correctly.
I'm trying to find an automation framework for iOS and/or Android that allows me to automate actions on a real device using 3rd party/built-in apps. For example, I want to be able to automate: Browse these websites with Safari, watch these videos with the Youtube app, et al.
The automation frameworks I've encountered in my search seem to be focused on testing out your own app, in which you provide hooks in your own code to the framework in question.
I won't be testing out my own app (I'm testing out a proxy that the devices send traffic through), and thus won't have access to the source code to the apps on the device. I'm new to this, apologies in advance if there's a way obvious answer right under my nose.
For android automation you can use UIAutomator. It doesn't require source code. It uses in built uiautomator jar file which is present in android SDK. For more information you can refer http://developer.android.com/tools/testing-support-library/index.html
I'm writing an Android application which needs to speak out a text (i.e the TextToSpeech functionality in an eReader). I am trying to do this in Papiamento Languages ("http://www.narin.com/papiamentu/"). Is this possible? If so, how could I do it? There are some TTS engines available. I used eSpeak TTS Engine. With the use of eSpeak, I was able to configure the settings page to use it as the default engine. But how could I use that engine to do TTS in our application? Thanks.
Unfortunately Papiamento isn't supported at the OS level, nor do pretty much every 3rd party TTS engine. I wish it did though, saw a few people using our app when I was in Curaçao a few weeks ago :)
Currently, only espeak supports this language, and it should be as easy as going to your android settings, general management or language and input, text to speech, preferred tts engine and select espeak as the default tts engine, which should automatically synthesize using espeak.
I have developed application for android based mobile using Java. I have tried developing apps for Windows based mobile phones using C# and heard about iOS that one would need to know Objective C.
Wondering if there is any way to have one language to develop an application that can run on all these platforms. I understand every operating system executes programs having different binaries that it execute. But just wondering if there is any common platform like JRE that is run on these mobile operating systems.
Thanks for the reply
Short of working with HTML mobile webapps, I reckon your closest bet to a common language between the 3 platforms would be C# using Mono.
Check out Mono for Android and MonoTouch for iOS both supported by the same company.
Whilst you could probably use the same language for your apps and even share internal APIs across the different platforms, you would still start to encounter differences in how the UI is handled on each of the platforms.
There is a project: http://www.appcelerator.com/platform which can be used for writing apps for Android and iOS... But from my experience I can tell that this is good only for simple prototype apps. The more fancy app, the bigger issues you would have with it.
Can anyone please clear my doubt regarding the query that does Android Programming has anything to do with the J2ME?
Does Android Development comes under J2ME Platform as J2ME is used basically for the Mobile Applications and Android is also the same one.
Please let me know if anybody is knowing it.
Android has nothing to do with J2ME beyond using the core Java language. In fact, the standard library is more reminiscent of Java SE.
Like Yann mentioned , j2me is not Android and vice versa, however they use the same language with different VMS. Google basically created their own JVM called DAVLIk which got Sun to sue Google because google used their technology without their approval.
There are however some J2ME to Android wrappers. LWUIT currently has such a wrapper.
in both same language will used which is JAVA.
but j2me is made for small devices which is run on kJVM .,
Android is basically made for smart devices.,
using j2me we can developed Third party app .,but Android is the native app which is fully supported by Android OS.
Also you may want to look at MicroEmulator http://microemu.blogspot.ru/2009/08/converting-javame-applications-to.html, it provides J2ME CLDC/MIDP wrappers for Java SE and Android, so basically you can write a midlet and pack it with MicroEmu to run on Android. But it will limit your app to J2ME UI which is quite weak, no comparison with Android. CodenameOne (former LWUIT mentioned in other answer) is a best choice for a cross-platform solution if you need to cover J2ME, Blackberry, Android, iOS and Windows Phone. But if you do not need to support J2ME and Blackberry, there are other solutions too (Xamarin, Marmelade, PhoneGap)