Text to Speech

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Don Woods
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Jan 30, 2014, 7:40:34 PM via Website

How could you develop an application instead of reading what you type in a text box but rather read aloud from a desired text file. IE PDF or word doc etc.

I got the idea from the first example in the video tutorial from MIT App inventor, the talk to me app example.

Can You a file to have read or spoken via the text to speech ?

Thanks

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Terry Haze 2
Terry Haze
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Jan 31, 2014, 8:15:13 AM via Website

So what the problem is, you can use android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech; and find the way to read your target format like pdf, there is a lot of libraries for it.

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Don Woods
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Jan 31, 2014, 8:48:51 AM via Website

so is there a way in appinventor to do this or would you have to use java ?

Thanks

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Terry Haze 2
Terry Haze
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Feb 3, 2014, 6:31:25 AM via Website

Don Woods
so is there a way in appinventor to do this or would you have to use java ?

Thanks

No, appinventor can handle it, i'm not eligible to post urls, but you can try to search "App Inventor Text to Speech" on YouTube, and "app inventor pdf snippets" on google, there is some tutorial video about this and many snippets. But you better learn java anyway, not whole Java but android atleast, it's not so hard. :kid:

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