Android Programming Tutorials 9 : TextVoice in Android

TextVoice or Speech:

In this TextVoice or Speech tutorial we are going to see how the hard coded data(TEXT) in our application can translate in to speech, Here we Go.....

OutPut Of the Tutorial:

Create Android Application:

• File >> New >> Android Application
• Enter Project name: TextVoiceApp
• Package: com.ambilpursunil.newapp
• Keep other default selections, click Next until you reach Finish

2.Copy and past the following code in the MainActivity.java

package com.ambilpursunil.newapp;

import java.util.Locale;

import java.util.Random;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech;

import android.view.View;

import android.view.View.OnClickListener;

import android.widget.Button;

                public class TextVoice extends Activity implements OnClickListener {

 static final String[] texts={

                   "what's up dude", "dude dude dude dude....","i can handle them"

                          };

                         TextToSpeech tts;

            @Override

             protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

                        setContentView(R.layout.textvoice);

                        Button b = (Button) findViewById(R.id.bTextVoice);

                        b.setOnClickListener(this);

  tts = new TextToSpeech(TextVoice.this, new TextToSpeech.OnInitListener() {

                       

             @Override

             public void onInit(int status) {

                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                       if(status != TextToSpeech.ERROR){

                       tts.setLanguage(Locale.US);

                       }

                       }

                       });

                      }

            @Override

            protected void onPause() {

                       // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                      if(tts != null){

                      tts.stop();

                      tts.shutdown();

                      }

                     super.onPause();

                   }

            @Override

            public void onClick(View v) {

                      // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                     Random r = new Random();

                     String random = texts[r.nextInt(3)];

                     tts.speak(random, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, null);

            }

}

2.Make the change the of activity_mani.java  file as the below

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <Button

        android:id="@+id/bTextVoice"

        android:layout_width="fill_parent"

        android:layout_height="fill_parent"

        android:text="VoiceText"></Button>

</LinearLayout>

3.Copy and past the code for Manifest.xml  file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    package="com.ambilpursunil.newapp"

    android:versionCode="1"

    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk

        android:minSdkVersion="8"

        android:targetSdkVersion="17" />

    <application

        android:allowBackup="true" 
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" 
        android:label="@string/app_name"

        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

    <activity 
       android:name="com.ambilpursunil.newapp.TextVoice"
       android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation" >

   <intent-filter>

        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />

  </intent-filter>

       </activity>

  </application>
</manifest>

4.Right click on the project and Run As-->Android Application

           

Just click on the button and listen to the output what ever i written in the String array of MainActivity.java

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