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bahadir arslan
bahadir arslan

Reputation: 4762

Android Text To Speech And Numbers

I am using Android Text to Speech engine for reading some text and it's working. But my text contains numbers and I want the numbers to be read digit by digit.

I couldn't find anything in the documentation, but I am still hoping someone knows how I can do that.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 7023

Answers (3)

luigi
luigi

Reputation: 1

/* refer Speech API , Don't use QUEUE_FLUSH as it results in flushing      
some characters in this case */
for(int i = 0 ; i < number.size(); i++) {
  engine.speak(Character.toString(number.charAt(i)),QUEUE_ADD,null); 
}

Upvotes: -2

algo1
algo1

Reputation: 115

The accepted answer has a minor flaw . If the number has '0' as one of it's digits , it would be read as alphabet 'o' instead of Zero . I would suggest the following solution .

 String number = "1230";

 for(int i = 0 ; i < number.size(); i++) {

  /* refer Speech API , Don't use QUEUE_FLUSH as it results in flushing      
     some characters in this case */

   engine.speak(Character.toString(number.charAt(i)),QUEUE_ADD,null);

  }

Upvotes: 1

gregm
gregm

Reputation: 12149

The API does not allow you to specify how the text should be read so your code has to modify the text input so that it reads the individual numbers.

I suggest adding a space in between each number. That should cause the TextToSpeech to read the individual numbers.

If you need some code to help you detect numbers use this:

private boolean isNumber(String word)
{
    boolean isNumber = false;
    try
    {
        Integer.parseInt(word);
        isNumber = true;
    } catch (NumberFormatException e)
    {
        isNumber = false;
    }
    return isNumber;
}

Upvotes: 3

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