how to decrease speech rate in google text to speech

Question

I tried several ways to lower the speech rate in google tts android.

 myTTS.setSpeechRate(1/2);

this is not working. This produces the default speed. its not accepting 0.5 (type is float). Someone help

Answer 1

You need to set the float value correctly:

myTTS.setSpeechRate(0.5f);

Answer 2

You can use float in this way. This is a sample to adjust the Pitch and SpeechRate

myTTS.setPitch((float)0.7);
myTTS.setSpeechRate((float)0.5);