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How can I dumb down our cutting-edge Text-to-Speech?

Back in the old days, text-to-speech, as cutting edge as it was, was very imperfect. When you typed in a word, it would pretty much read it how you spelled it... in monotone. Oftentimes, the result would be very funny. Nowadays, Text-to-Speech is too intelligent to goof in ways that can bring a laugh. As a personal project, I'd like ...

Start Android TTS from Broadcast Receiver or Service

I'm trying to get TTS to run in the background. But, I never get any sound. I have a broadcast receiver which starts a service. I put my TTS code in both of those, but it never speaks. I know the method is being called (I put a breakpoint on it), but it still doesn't work. Here's my log, but it doesn't seem to contain anything about the...

Least Expensive Android Phone for TTS SW Development?

I know many developers ask about the best Android phone for development, but my question is almost opposite: What is the least expensive Android phone that I can get away with TTS (text-to-speech) and ASR (automated-speech-recognition) software development? To further clarify my question: Do all Android phones support TTS and ASR? Do ...

Minimize lag when using System.Speech.Synthesis

I am playing with using TTS built into .NET 4 and want the speech to happen immediately, but am instead encountering a lag between when I call Speak and when I get the audio. I am developing a simple count-down timer that calls off the last five seconds and completion (5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Done), but when the screen updates with the...

SpeechToText and running the ACTION_CHECK_TTS_DATA intent

Ok so I've implemented the TextToSpeech integration to the T mentioned in: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/09/introduction-to-text-to-speech-in.html but now it's messing with my other intents. For example: 1. user starts app 2. user invokes load activity 3. user picks a file to load, and activity returns fileanme to load in ...

Iphone , how to read mp3 google tts in iPhone

I use the sample code in this link http://cocoawithlove.com/2009/06/revisiting-old-post-streaming-and.html its work for all http link mp3 file but its not work for @"http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q="; because it is html 5 page can i help me please for read this link ...

we can't enter android market from Turkiye, and ı want donwload language pack for tts....

how can ı add language pack for TTS service outof android market?? or ıf I want, how can I write my language pack and add it?? ...