HB Blog 19: Sample code for converting "Speech" to "Text" and vice-versa.

       Speech technology allows hands free use of the mobile.Android APIs provide us a large number of packages which includes class and methods that makes easy to convert "Speech" to "Text" and vice-versa.I have shown a sample of both speech to text as well as text to speech conversion.

Refer the below link for complete sample code(Speech To Text):-
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Refer the below link for complete sample code(Text To Speech):-
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Speech To Text

 

Have a look on few code snippets,

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//Just,fire an intent to start the speech recognition activity. //This Starts an activity that will prompt the user for speech and send it through //a speech recognizer. Intent intent = new Intent(RecognizerIntent.ACTION_RECOGNIZE_SPEECH); intent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_LANGUAGE_MODEL, "en-US"); startActivityForResult(intent, RESULT_SPEECH); //get the result using onActivityResult and set to required text view //you can also provide pending intent if one is provided. ArrayList<String> text = data. getStringArrayListExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_RESULTS); textView.setText(text.get(0));

Text To Speech

 

Have a look on few code snippets,

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//Use OnInitListener of to signal the completion of the TextToSpeech engine initialization textToSpeech = new TextToSpeech(getApplicationContext(), new TextToSpeech.OnInitListener(){ @Override public void onInit(int status){ if(status != TextToSpeech.ERROR){ textToSpeech.setLanguage(Locale.UK); } } }); //Then use "speak" method that speaks the string using the specified queuing strategy and speech parameters. public void speakText(View view){ String toSpeak = et_txt.getText().toString(); textToSpeech.speak(toSpeak, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, null); }