Unhapilly my language doesn't have support for TTS in stock Android. So, my users have to download a third party TTS voice engine.
This is QUITE annoying since it requires extra steps to get my software working.
Is there ANY way to EMBED any third party TTS engine (with its corresponding language pack) in an Android app?
Any help is appreciatted!
No,It is not possible.
You have to download third party TTS from android market then install it Or you can keep third party TTS .apk into assets and then install it.
After that you need to download corresponding voice data from server whose size is ranging from 32Mb to 160MB.
Then you need to set this tts as default tts engine in android Voice input and output. setting(Externally).
Then you need to set your language if user have chosen Always use my settings in android setting.
I am not sure if you can embed a third party TTS in android. But I have done it using java.
there is an open source library available as freetts.jar.
Just go through this video tutorial and you will get the procedure. You can try implementing the same in android.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKAXzpnWXNU
Hope it helps you.
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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 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.
Google has recently made great progress with their speech recognition software, which is used in several open source products, e.g. Chromium Web Speech and Android Handsfree texting. I would like to use their speech recognition as part of my server stack, however I can't find much about it.
Is the text recognition software available as a library or package? Or alternatively, can I call chromium from another program to transcribe some audio file to text?
The Web Speech API's are designed only to be used in the context of either Chrome or Android. There is a lot of work that goes on in the client so there is no public server to server API that would just take an audio file and process it.
If you search github you find tools such as https://gist.github.com/alotaiba/1730160 but I am pretty certain that this method of access is 100% not supported, endorsed or confirmed to keep working.
The method previously stated at https://gist.github.com/alotaiba/1730160 does work for me. I use it on a daily basis in my home automation programs. I use a python script to capture audio and determine what is useful audio or just noise, then it sends the little audio snippet to google and returns the text all under a second!! I have successfully integrated it into my programs and if you google around you will find even more people that have as well!
I found for certain languages the sound files from google translate sound by far most real (compared to other TTS engines availlable for Android).
Is the google translate app using a TTS engine?
Is there a way to play these TTS from a android app?
Here is a link to a TechCrunch article on using the unofficial Google TTS API [http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/14/the-unofficial-google-text-to-speech-api/]. You pass in the text in a RESTful API and it returns you an MP3. So if you can make an HTTP request from your Android application and play the MP3 that is returned you could use the Google TTS engine. The downside is that it is "unofficial" so it could be changed or removed without warning. There are probably other services available like this that are supported. But you will need an Internet connection and have to deal with latency issues with this approach, which may or may not be an issue depending on the application.
Android uses TTS engine, but the engine is determined by the firmware provider. The most-commonly seen one is Pico.
Here is the Android documentation on using TTS:
android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech
Android's TTS does NOT require an internet connection. It generates the sounds as needed.
Here is some code that uses Android TTS. It handles some of the gotchas involved:
https://github.com/gmilette/Say-the-Magic-Word-
I want see the source code for the voice enabled-keyboard feature for android.
Can someone tell me where to find the code?
I assume you're referring to the speech recognition feature demonstrated on the Nexus One with Android 2.1.
If this application is open sourced as part of Android, it will be posted on the Android Open Source Project website at https://android.googlesource.com.
However, Android 2.1 has not yet been posted; it should hopefully be available soon.
In the meantime, you could take a look at the source to the voice dialler application.
As far as I know this code is not currently planned to be open sourced -- it is owned by Google as part of their voice recognition server technology. The IME is a fork that Google made of the standard platform input method, adding voice search to it, much like other manufacturers make their own proprietary customizations.