Android Text To Speech Application Tutorial - Part 2

Submitted by donbermoy on Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 11:35.

In my previous example with my first tutorial, I came up with the image of fading in and out. Now, in this tutorial I will introduce to all of you the power of Basic4Android that convert the text to become a speech. Before we begin with the code you must need to have three buttons for speech, clear, and exit, and the other one is the EditText(Textbox). You must design your layout like this: TextToSpeechDesign1

Then the emulator will look like this one: emulator design

This is the complete code and I will explain one by one the following syntax:

Sub Process_Globals
End Sub
 
Sub Globals
         Dim tts As ICOSTextToSpeech
         Dim Button1 As Button
         Dim EditText1 As EditText
         Dim Button2 As Button
         Dim Button3 As Button
End Sub
 
Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
         Activity.LoadLayout("Main")
         Activity.Title="TextToSpeech - Lyndon Bermoy"  
         tts.InitializeTTs("tts", "en")
End Sub
Sub Activity_Resume
End Sub
 
Sub Activity_Pause (User Closed As Boolean)
End Sub
 
Sub Button1_Click
         If EditText1.Text = "" Then
         Msgbox ("Please input message to the box","")
         EndIf
         tts.Speaking(EditText1.Text)
End Sub
Sub Button3_Click
         ExitApplication
End Sub
Sub Button2_Click
        EditText1.Text = ""
End Sub

Note: This code is for initializing TextToSpeech Application. Dim tts As ICOSTextToSpeech - The tts here is our variable for ICOSTextToSpeech in which I created as the library for my text to speech application. It is like importing the important packages in your program. Syntax like this one tts.InitializeTTs("tts", "en") is that you initialize tts as "tts" for the title and the "en" here is for the default language "English". The code for our speak button is named Button1 that if the user will click without entering a string in the EditText it will prompt "Please input message to the box". Otherwise this syntax will follow tts.Speaking(EditText1.Text) This syntax is for speaking the text you inputted in EditText1. The word "Speaking" here is the method name to convert text to speech. Button2 is used to clear our Textbox and Button3 is for exiting the application. Best regards, Engr. Lyndon R. Bermoy IT Instructor/System Developer/Mobile Developer 09126450702 [email protected] Visit my page on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/BermzISware

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