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Luke Vo
Luke Vo

Reputation: 20708

Android TextToSpeech just spells short words instead of pronounces them

I'm using TextToSpeech to read words. This code works fine for most cases:

public void speak(String pContent) {
    if (!isAvailable() || !isReady()) return;
    this.mEngine.speak(pContent, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_ADD, null);
}

However, with words that have 3 or less characters such as dog, cow it just spells each character (d - o - g). Words like cow milk, it spells cow, then reads milk correctly.

Did I do something wrong?

More information: I tried PicoTTS of Android, and on Galaxy Tab, I tried Samsung TTS too, both of them have this issue.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1232

Answers (2)

Kees Koenen
Kees Koenen

Reputation: 770

AFAIK the only way to get TTS to spell words is using all capitals. I can't see your pContent, but maybe you're feeding it COW milk?

Upvotes: 4

Guillermo Tobar
Guillermo Tobar

Reputation: 344

I have tested in Spanish and English with the words dog, cow, ant and I can not find the problem you are reporting. It is likely that you're missing something in the code. Use the example below, and indicates whether the problem was solved.

I hope it was useful.

http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/TextToSpeechActivity.html

Upvotes: 0

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