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Tiago Santos
Tiago Santos

Reputation: 766

Google's Text To Speech available Voices (portuguese)

I've implemented TTS and successfully implemented it with the language I'm interested in. My question now is if I could get any more variety of Voices in the same language. I'm only getting a standard female voice. (even when I add "male" as a feature to the Voice)

When I print the tts.getVoices() method I get that only one voice is available. However, if I visit this website I see that google has 4 standard pt-PT voices, plus 4 WaveNet pt-PT additional ones.

Does anyone know how is it possible to integrate any of these 8 voices into my app? Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 1

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Answers (1)

Nerdy Bunz
Nerdy Bunz

Reputation: 7437

tts.getVoices() is a method provided by the Android TextToSpeech class.

It returns the list of voices that are available to the particular TTS engine that happens to be installed on the device you are testing with. The results of tts.getVoices() will differ by device and depend on:

1) The type of engine (Google, Samsung, PICO, etc.) the user/manufacturer has installed.

2) How up-to-date the installed version of that engine is.

The website you reference is Google Cloud text-to-speech which is different than the Android TextToSpeech class.

The Google Cloud service works independently of any device framework -- in an Android app (or any app on any platform), you would simply make a normal http request to the Google cloud server and you would be returned an audio file.

Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/apis.

Upvotes: 1

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