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Following the tip in this answer, I placed a call to setEngineByPackageName right in onActivityResult(), when requestCode == REQ_TTS_STATUS_CHECK && TextToSpeech.Engine.CHECK_VOICE_DATA_PASS:

  tts = new TextToSpeech(this, this);
  tts.setEngineByPackageName("com.ivona.tts.voicebeta.eng.usa.kendra");

But regardless whether I check or uncheck the Always use my settings in Text-to-speech settings, I always get the pico default engine!

Yes, I intentionally set the pico engine to be the default, so that I can test overriding it by the aforementioned tip. But that API method seems not to be working at all, or... am I missing something?

(I know that setEngineByPackageName is deprecated, since it doesn't inform caller when the TTS engine has been initialized, but I need to support API 8, so this method is my only option at the moment)

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You say that you placed the call to setEngineByPackageName in onActivityResult(). This is the wrong place to do this.

setEngineByPackageName, just like getDefaultEngine, must not be called before reaching onInit().

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