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

In the absence of a pause option, you can add silence for the duration of when you want to delay the TTS Engine speaking. This of course would have to be a predetermined 'pause' and wouldn't help to include functionality of a pause button, for example.

For API < 21 : public int playSilence (long durationInMs, int queueMode, HashMap params)

For > 21 : public int playSilentUtterance (long durationInMs, int queueMode, String utteranceId)

Remember to use TextToSpeech.QUEUE_ADD rather than TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH otherwise it will clear the previously started speech.