Handling multiple languages without delay in Android's TTS

Question

I have this problem: I'd like to let the TTS speak an English sentence with foreign words in it (for instance, Italian). The problem is that, after instancing a TextToSpeech class, every time I change language, it takes several seconds to load, and this is unacceptable since the sentence needs to be as fluid as possible. I also tried instancing more than one TextToSpeech, but the results are pretty much identical.

I wasn't able to find something on Google, aside from this question, which was unhelpful.

Is there at all a way to achive this? How?

Thanks in advance, Mauro.

Any solution to this yet? – c0dehunter Aug 24 '20 at 03:24 — c0dehunter, Aug 24 '20 at 03:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '15 at 06:42

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You need to use another TTS engine. Ivona TTS switch between languages pretty fast. Sometime at the start it is a little bit slow to switch, but after the first sentence it is fine.

answered Jul 10 '15 at 06:42

Hoan Nguyen

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It could be a solution, but I don't want to force my users to use a particular TTS Engine. – MMauro Jul 10 '15 at 07:25
I used Ivona and it is fast, I do not know about others. You definitely cannot use Google TTS for what you are trying to do. – Hoan Nguyen Jul 11 '15 at 06:06
Checked out Ivona. It does not contain the languages I need. – Sergey Podolsky Dec 20 '15 at 21:20
There are many other TTS engines, check them out for the language you need and see which one is the better one. – Hoan Nguyen Dec 21 '15 at 16:54

Handling multiple languages without delay in Android's TTS

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