I'm working on text to speech conversion. For this, I got the example from the internet. In this they set the English language by setLanguage(Locale.US);
. So, now I'm trying to set the Arabic instead of English. But I failed when I change the language to Arabic. Anyone help me to change the language as Arabic
Code for reference
import java.util.Locale;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech;
import android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech.OnInitListener;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class TexttoSpeechActivity extends Activity implements OnInitListener {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
private TextToSpeech tts;
private Button btnSpeak;
private EditText txtText;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
tts = new TextToSpeech(this, this);
btnSpeak = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnSpeak);
txtText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.txtText);
btnSpeak.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View arg0) {
speakOut();
}
});
}
@Override
public void onDestroy() {
// Don't forget to shutdown!
if (tts != null) {
tts.stop();
tts.shutdown();
}
super.onDestroy();
}
public void onInit(int status) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if (status == TextToSpeech.SUCCESS) {
/*Locale locale = new Locale("ar_EG");
Locale.setDefault(locale);
Configuration config = new Configuration();
config.locale = locale;
getBaseContext().getResources().updateConfiguration(config,
getBaseContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics());*/
int result = tts.setLanguage(Locale.US);
if (result == TextToSpeech.LANG_MISSING_DATA
|| result == TextToSpeech.LANG_NOT_SUPPORTED) {
Toast.makeText(this, "Language not supported", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
Log.e("TTS", "Language is not supported");
} else {
btnSpeak.setEnabled(true);
}
} else {
Log.e("TTS", "Initilization Failed");
}
}
private void speakOut() {
String text = txtText.getText().toString();
if (text.length() == 0) {
tts.speak("You haven't typed text", TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, null);
} else {
tts.speak(text, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, null);
}
}
}
In recent reference, Locale
has information of language/country code which are suitable in ISO 639-1/ISO 3166-1.
ISO 639-1 is two-letter lowercase language code. Arabic is defined ar in this format.
So, try this code:
Locale loc = new Locale("ar");
/* under API 20 */
tts.setLanguage(loc);
/* over API 21 */
String voiceName = loc.toLanguageTag();
Voice voice = new Voice(voiceName, loc, Voice.QUALITY_HIGH, Voice.LATENCY_HIGH, false, null);
tts.setVoice(voice);
Also, TextToSpeech
service that you used must support Arabic if you want to listen Arabic voice. Check it first.
Note:
Android Locale reference: https://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Locale.html
ISO 639-1 code reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes
Locale locale = new Locale("ru");
Locale.setDefault(locale);
Configuration config = new Configuration();
config.locale = locale;
getBaseContext().getResources().updateConfiguration(config,
getBaseContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics());
Reference :ref
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