My android application has text to speak feature and more then one activity uses this feature. So created a static helper class to made this easy.
import java.util.Locale;
import android.content.Context;
import android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech;
import android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech.OnInitListener;
import android.util.Log;
public class TextToSpeechController implements OnInitListener {
private static final String TAG = "TextToSpeechController";
private TextToSpeech myTTS;
private String textToSpeak;
private Context context;
private static TextToSpeechController singleton;
public static TextToSpeechController getInstance(Context ctx) {
if (singleton == null)
singleton = new TextToSpeechController(ctx);
return singleton;
}
private TextToSpeechController(Context ctx) {
context = ctx;
}
public void speak(String text) {
textToSpeak = text;
if (myTTS == null) {
// currently can't change Locale until speech ends
try {
// Initialize text-to-speech. This is an asynchronous operation.
// The OnInitListener (second argument) is called after
// initialization completes.
myTTS = new TextToSpeech(context, this);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
sayText();
}
public void onInit(int initStatus) {
if (initStatus == TextToSpeech.SUCCESS) {
if (myTTS.isLanguageAvailable(Locale.UK) == TextToSpeech.LANG_AVAILABLE)
myTTS.setLanguage(Locale.UK);
}
// status can be either TextToSpeech.SUCCESS or TextToSpeech.ERROR.
if (initStatus == TextToSpeech.SUCCESS) {
int result = myTTS.setLanguage(Locale.UK);
if (result == TextToSpeech.LANG_MISSING_DATA
|| result == TextToSpeech.LANG_NOT_SUPPORTED) {
Log.e(TAG, "TTS missing or not supported (" + result + ")");
// Language data is missing or the language is not supported.
// showError(R.string.tts_lang_not_available);
} else {
// Initialization failed.
Log.e(TAG, "Error occured");
}
}
}
private void sayText() {
// ask TTs to say the text
myTTS.speak(this.textToSpeak, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, null);
}
public void stopTTS() {
if (myTTS != null) {
myTTS.shutdown();
myTTS.stop();
myTTS = null;
}
}
}
I am using this helper class like this.
TextToSpeechController.getInstance(this).speak(readableMessage);
But sometimes i see an error like line beloew at LogCat.
"speak:failed not bound to tts engine"
No exception thrown but nothing readed by TTS. I realized that if i triggered activity from BroadcastReceiver, i got this error. Otherwise if manually open activity from application code works with no problem.
Here is the BroadcastReceiver code
private final BroadcastReceiver mHandleMessageReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
String newMessage = intent.getExtras().getString(EXTRA_MESSAGE);
String readableMessage = intent.getExtras().getString(READABLE_MESSAGE);
Bundle b = new Bundle();
b.putString(EXTRA_MESSAGE, newMessage);
b.putString(READABLE_MESSAGE, readableMessage);
Intent newIntent = new Intent("android.intent.action.MAIN");
newIntent.setClass(context, Speak.class);
newIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
newIntent.putExtra("MessageReceived", b);
newIntent.putExtra("CallType", CallType.NOTIFICATION);
context.startActivity(newIntent);
}
};