How to pause android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech?

Question

I\'m playing text with android TTS - android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech

I use: TextToSpeech.speak to speak and .stop to stop. Is

Answer 1

You can make the TTS pause between sentences, or anywhere you want by adding up to three periods (".") all followed by a single space " ". The example below has a long pause at the beginning, and again before the message body. I'm not sure that is what you are after though.

    private final BroadcastReceiver SMScatcher = new BroadcastReceiver() {

    @Override
    public void onReceive(final Context context, final Intent intent) {
        if (intent.getAction().equals(
                "android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED")) {
            // if(message starts with SMStretcher recognize BYTE)
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

            /*
             * The SMS-Messages are 'hiding' within the extras of the
             * Intent.
             */
            Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();
            if (bundle != null) {
                /* Get all messages contained in the Intent */
                Object[] pdusObj = (Object[]) bundle.get("pdus");
                SmsMessage[] messages = new SmsMessage[pdusObj.length];
                for (int i = 0; i < pdusObj.length; i++) {
                    messages[i] = SmsMessage
                            .createFromPdu((byte[]) pdusObj[i]);
                }
                /* Feed the StringBuilder with all Messages found. */
                for (SmsMessage currentMessage : messages) {
                    // periods are to pause
                    sb.append("... Message From: ");
                    /* Sender-Number */
                    sb.append(currentMessage.getDisplayOriginatingAddress());
                    sb.append(".. ");
                    /* Actual Message-Content */
                    sb.append(currentMessage.getDisplayMessageBody());
                }
                // Toast.makeText(application, sb.toString(),
                // Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                if (mTtsReady) {
                    try {
                        mTts.speak(sb.toString(), TextToSpeech.QUEUE_ADD,
                                null);
                    } catch (Exception e) {
                        Toast.makeText(application, "TTS Not ready",
                                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }
            }

        }
    }
};

If you omit the space after the last period it will (or may) not work as expected.