Android Question Open Google TTS options to download voice data

[rraswisak]

Hi all,

I'm trying text to speech example from Erel's tutorial here, the voice came out for local and English language, but when select other language no voice heard, i notice that voice engine for selected voice did not available or i can say its not installed yet which mean we must add/install manually.

So the question is, how we/app can directly open Google TTS options setting through code without manually opening google setting ?

Thank you

 

[emexes]

Don't know; good luck with that. Wild guess would be: use Intent?

Presumably your app user would only be using the local language anyway, which would already be installed. Perhaps you are solving a problem that only a small percentage of your users will have.

Then again, I have a vague recollection of enjoying a variety of accents when I used TTS six months ago, and I doubt that I installed those language packs or anything, so... I'll have a look at what I did there. But everything was in English, just spoken with the accent of a different language. Or maybe it was of a different country, which is not quite the same thing.

 

[jimmyF]

how we/app can directly open Google TTS options setting through code

This works for me:

 Dim i As Intent
 i.Initialize("com.android.settings.TTS_SETTINGS", "")
 StartActivity(i)

 

[emexes]

I doubt that I installed those language packs or anything

I just tried using a language that is not installed, and it used the default language instead. So I must have installed the data in my sleep ;-)

If JimmyF's Intent method works, that would be the way to go. With a bit of luck, most of your users will already have the language installed that they need, but it's good of you to prepare things for if they don't.

 

[rraswisak]

Thank you @jimmyF, i can confirm that the code works like a charm