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Posted November 11, 2014 9:29pm by

Could anyone tell me how I might make text-to-speech in my app?

I would like to implement text-to-speech and was hoping some of you fantastic people might have an idea of where to start. Thanks guys!

November 11, 2014 9:44pm

If you want to implement your own libraries to convert text into an audio file that would be quite a lot of work and I would not know the best way to tackle this project.

TextToSpeech in Andriods API is probably what you are looking for.

However there are other free services such as tts-api that can also provide you with similar functionality (Though I have not tested this within an Android application.)

Try messing around with Androids libraries and see if that is what you needed! (Once I take the course I will be able to write out some examples for you, but I am just not there yet)