text-to-speech

I need to implement feature in my Andorind app which allows to play two different synthesized languages in current Acitivity - for instance having two buttons Say English and Say French I've tried to do it in two following ways but both of them works ineffectively because there is long delay before sound plays: first approach: create single instance of TTS and change language by setLocale method depending on what language has to be played. Unfortunately switching between languages by setLocale is time consuming which has impact on reaction after button is clicked second approach: create two

I'm trying to find out if the Google TTS Engine that came with my Android phone comes installed as factory default with all Android phones that support it? I'm not sure what kind of reference to look at to figure this out, so my plan is to go to Softbank, a retailer, and ask. I feel it's a question they won't be able to answer, though. I've been told that Galaxies don't come with Google TTS, specifically; so, anyone with a Galaxy can at least set me straight on that.... I'm also wondering, how can I get a packaged version of the Google TTS Engine? I'm not able to find it on The Play Store. The

I am making a language learning web app that when you hover over the word, it pronounces it for you. I'd like to access the native speaker translations from Google Translate API. I've found this resource which gives http://translate.google.com/translate_tts as the base URL and tl for target language and q for the query string. This works awesome when I just access it in the browser, http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=zh-CN&q =你好, but any httprequests for my app return a 403 Forbidden error. localhost:~ me$ wget " http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=en&q=hello+world

I want to save audio file in Arabic language. for that I am using the code as below. i am trying it, but I am not able to save in Arabic language. its saves only in English language. please help me, Thanks package com.t; import java.io.File; import java.util.HashMap; import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.os.Environment; import android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech; import android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech.OnInitListener; import android.util.Log; import android.view.View; import android.view.View.OnClickListener; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget

I've created a Twilio application that involves using Twilio's TwimL <Say> command to read off a list of numbers that constitute an ID that the user has previously input (e.g., 3638194746219190 or something along those lines). Since it's a long list of numbers, I have the application read back the list of numbers to confirm that the user has input them correctly. Since it's dynamic, I can't pre-record it--it has to be with <Say> , but Twilio reads it back way too quickly. I currently have the numbers played back with spaces and commas between them to slow them down, for example: '3, 6, 3, 8, 1

The first part of this question is now its own, here: Analyzing Text for Accents Question: How could accents be added to generated speech? What I've come up with: I do not mean just accent marks, or inflection, or anything singular like that. I mean something like a full British accent, or a Scottish accent, or Russian, etc. I would think that this could be done outside of the language as well. Ex : something in Russian could be generated with a British accent, or something in Mandarin could have a Russian accent. I think the basic process would be this: Analyze the text Compare with a