Control speed of TextToSpeech (TTS)

Question

Is there any way I can have greater control over "how" the TTS is saying instead of "what" it is saying?

• pitch
• speed of pronunciation
• male/female
• any other options?

The API comes up short

Answer 1

Just came across this and surprised nobody had answered.

Try using setPitch or setSpeechRate.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/tts/TextToSpeech.html#setPitch(float)

Answer 2

With TTS u can use these methods to control speak

• addSpeech(String text, String filename) //This method adds a mapping between a string of text and a sound file.
• getLanguage() ////This method returns a Localeinstance describing the language.
• isSpeaking()//This method checks whether the TextToSpeech engine is busy speaking.
• setPitch(float pitch)//This method sets the speech pitch for the TextToSpeech engine.
• setSpeechRate(float speechRate)//This method sets the speech rate.
• shutdown()//This method releases the resources used by the TextToSpeech
• stop()//This method stop the speak.