Investigate Text to Speech Capabilities

[DylanPhuah]

We should look into how we would go about making a Java program read out text given to it. People assigned to this should be ready to go by next week.

[DylanPhuah]

` import java.util.Locale; import java.util.Scanner;

import javax.speech.Central; import javax.speech.synthesis.Synthesizer; import javax.speech.synthesis.SynthesizerModeDesc;

public class TextToSpeech {

private static final String VOICES_KEY = "freetts.voices";
private static final String VOICE_VALUE = "com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.cmu_us_kal.KevinVoiceDirectory";
private static final String CENTRAL_DATA = "com.sun.speech.freetts.jsapi.FreeTTSEngineCentral";

public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        //Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
        //String data = sc.nextLine();
        System.setProperty(VOICES_KEY,VOICE_VALUE);
        String data = "Arabella's got some interstellar gator skin boots";
        Central.registerEngineCentral( CENTRAL_DATA);
        Synthesizer sy = Central.createSynthesizer(new SynthesizerModeDesc(Locale.US));
        sy.allocate();
        sy.resume();
        sy.speakPlainText(data, null);
        sy.waitEngineState(Synthesizer.QUEUE_EMPTY);
        sy.deallocate();

    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Hello, World!");

    }
}

}`

Use this snippet here, and this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV4cP27TvD8