IllegalArgumentException: Invalid int: "OS" with Samsung tts

Question

I'm using Text to speech in my android application.It is working Fine with Google TTs and espeak, But when i used with Samsung TTS it gives following Exception.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid int: "OS"
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1429)
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1379)
at android.speech.tts.ITextToSpeechService$Stub$Proxy.isLanguageAvailable(ITextToSpeechService.java:482)
at android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech$10.run(TextToSpeech.java:1084)

at android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech$10.run(TextToSpeech.java:1081)
at android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech$Connection.runAction(TextToSpeech.java:1329)

at android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech.runAction(TextToSpeech.java:570)

at android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech.runAction(TextToSpeech.java:561)

at android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech.isLanguageAvailable(TextToSpeech.java:1081)

Answer 1

I have found that I get this exception also when I try to do something like TextToSpeech.getDefaultVoice, or TextToSpeech.getVoices(), or TextToSpeech.getVoice(). I worked around this by not calling them, and instead working through the default Locale to get what I was trying to get via the Voices object.

So in my case I wanted to know the Locale so I could select a language, so I did the following

            Locale lTest = Locale.getDefault();
            res = mTTS.isLanguageAvailable(lTest);

Answer 2

I used this to avoid raising the exception.

    int result = mTts.isLanguageAvailable(Locale.US);
    if(result >= 0)
        result = mTts.setLanguage(Locale.US);
    else {
        Locale def = Locale.getDefault();
        result = mTts.isLanguageAvailable(def);
        if(result >=0 )
            result = mTts.setLanguage(def);
    }