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Is there a way I can use the text-to-speech from the new Google Voice? In Jelly Bean the pronunciation is really smooth so I was thinking may be there is some kind of API for access to that service?

Thanks!

gawi
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Yes, it is possible to access the Google Now voice using the Android TTS APIs. You need to use "KEY_FEATURE_NETWORK_SYNTHESIS" in the "params" parameter for the TextToSpeech.speak() call.

See

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/tts/TextToSpeech.Engine.html#KEY_FEATURE_NETWORK_SYNTHESIS

and

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/tts/TextToSpeech.html#speak(java.lang.String,int,java.util.HashMap)

nhaarman
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Fergus Henderson
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Have you tried to use just the standard TextToSpeech class?

See Reference for usage. You can pass a "engine" string to the constructor. If the JB TTS Engine appears as a different engine you could choose it there. But I assume that the new JB TTS engine is used automatically if you just select the standard TTS engine.

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  • unfortunately this is not the case, the google now version is much more advanced than the tts provided with android jb. I don't think it can be used. – ekatz Jul 24 '12 at 20:10