In this article I will show the most simple way to add text to speech abilities to your Android application.

public class Text2SpeechTest extends Activity implements OnInitListener {

	TextToSpeech talker;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        talker = new TextToSpeech(this, this);
    }

    public void say(String text2say){
    	talker.speak(text2say, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, null);
    }

	@Override
	public void onInit(int status) {
		say("Hello World");

	}

	@Override
	public void onDestroy() {
		if (talker != null) {
			talker.stop();
			talker.shutdown();
		}

		super.onDestroy();
	}
}

• Actually that’s the whole code.
  You just need to create a TextToSpeech object.
• Notice the constructor takes 2 parameters, the first is the Context Activity extends from. The second is an OnInitListener which you will need to implement.
• Ofcourese there are a lot more options but this is the gist of it. You can read more in the Android developer website.

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