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cfischer
cfischer

Reputation: 24912

Text to Speech on iOS

I'd like to add text to speech on the iOS, but noticed that NSSpeechSynthesizer seems to be missing from Cocoa-Touch.

Are there any third party, commercial or FOSS, libraries that you would recommend? Will Apple reject an app that contains a third party library?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7689

Answers (4)

Paul Dixon
Paul Dixon

Reputation: 4267

Have a look a CMU's Flite TTS engine.

There are a few iOS ports of Flite, for example

Upvotes: 3

Onato
Onato

Reputation: 10221

How to programmatically use iOS voice synthesizers? (text to speech)

Starting from iOS 7 Apple provides the following API...

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AVFoundation/Reference/AVSpeechSynthesizer_Ref/Reference/Reference.html

#import <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h>
…
AVSpeechUtterance *utterance = [AVSpeechUtterance 
                            speechUtteranceWithString:@"Hello world"];
AVSpeechSynthesizer *synth = [[AVSpeechSynthesizer alloc] init];
[synth speakUtterance:utterance];

Upvotes: 3

Peter Zhou
Peter Zhou

Reputation: 4251

If you are not releasing your app on the App store, I recommend VoiceService API. It is a private API. But it is easy to use and outputs high quality sounds.

Upvotes: 0

edc1591
edc1591

Reputation: 10182

I've heard that OpenEars is good, but I don't really know too much about it. As for Apple accepting an app with third-party libraries, it all depends on whether or not the third-party library uses private frameworks or not. I'm sure that information is available on the OpenEars website.

Upvotes: 2

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