How to pause android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech?

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Jas picture Jas · Feb 11, 2011 · Viewed 34.3k times · Source

I'm playing text with android TTS - android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech

I use: TextToSpeech.speak to speak and .stop to stop. Is there a way to pause the text also?

Answer

Aaron C picture Aaron C · Feb 12, 2011

The TTS SDK doesn't have any pause functionality that I know of. But you could use synthesizeToFile() to create an audio file that contains the TTS output. Then, you would use a MediaPlayer object to play, pause, and stop playing the file. Depending on how long the text string is, it might take a little longer for audio to be produced because the synthesizeToFile() function would have to complete the entire file before you could play it, but this delay should be acceptable for most applications.

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