Android speech - how can you read text in Android?

Question

How can you read data, i.e. convert simple text strings to voice (speech) in Android?

Is there an API where I can do something like this:

TextToVoice         


        

Answer 1

There are third-party text-to-speech engines. Rumor has it that Donut contains a text-to-speech engine, suggesting it will be available in future versions of Android. Beyond that, though, there is nothing built into Android for text-to-speech.