Hi all,
I was wondering if iPhone has any API that supports Text to Speech feature? I looked around but couldn't find any, so just want to confirm.
Thanking in anticipation.
Thanks for the confirmation.
Mustafa
2009-07-09 08:49:40
A:
This is possible, but you will have to roll your own. I have seen an app do this.
John Ballinger
2009-07-09 09:57:53
+6
A:
The iPhone 3G S has the private VoiceServices framework which can do this. Steve Troughton-Smith describes how to use the private class VSSpeechSynthesizer here, but you have little chance of getting something using this into the App Store.
Brad Larson
2009-07-09 12:29:20
Ah... What i was looking for. But not very useful if its use is so limited, and doubtful (w.r.t. App Store acceptance) :(Thanks.
Mustafa
2009-07-11 10:29:30
A:
I did this before iPhone 2.0 came out by porting espeak to the platform. I used it as a command line utility but it should be possible to make it into a library.
Epsilon Prime
2009-10-16 18:42:15
A:
You might also want to have a look at this: http://artofsystems.blogspot.com/2009/02/speech-synthesis-on-iphone-with-flite.html
It uses Flite. It doesn't contain specific instructions but it can give you ideas.
Dimitris
2009-10-21 20:22:18
I tried to test it out once, but there was a web of compiler errors, and after 2 hrs, i gave up :)
Mustafa
2009-10-22 10:15:10
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There's an Iphone app that does direct TTS, Search for "TTSMessenger" on Itunes
Jakes
2010-01-27 21:38:02
+5
A:
I ran into this problem at one point, and got Flite (festival lite) text to speech engine running on iPhone. I recently made an API class for it. I tried to make it easy (and free) to add to new and existing projects. It can be downloaded at http://bitbucket.org/sfoster/iphone-tts/
cmang
2010-03-21 10:15:04
+1
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I believe cmang has done a great job. The class is helpful, thank you http://bitbucket.org/sfoster/iphone-tts/