Android Text to Speech Tutorial
Android is providing a cool feature (from Android 1.6) called Text to Speech (TTS) which speaks the text in different languages. This tutorial explains how to work with android text to speech or android speech synthesis. In this tutorial i also explained changing the language type, pitch level and speed level.
Below i provided video of the ouput.
I developed a simple interface with one input field and a button to trigger a event that will take text from input field and speaks out.
1. Create a new project by going to File ⇒ New Android Project. and fill required details.
2. Implement your main Activity class from TextToSpeech.OnInitListener
3. Now add following code your class.
4. Now run your project and test your app by entering some text in input filed.
Changing Language
You can change language to speak by using setLanguage() function. Lot of languages are supported like Canada, French, Chinese, Germany etc.,
Changing Pitch Rate
You can set speed pitch level by using setPitch() function. By default the value is 1.0 You can set lower values than 1.0 to decrease pitch level or greater values for increase pitch level.
Changing Speed Rate
The speed rate can be set using setSpeechRate(). This also will take default of 1.0 value. You can double the speed rate by setting 2.0 or make half the speed level by setting 0.5