speak with TTS such as Hindi

Question

In my application , I wish to know if there is any tts engine that can read hindi text . my code

tts.setLanguage(Locale.US);

unfortunately Hindi is not supported by Android. See the list of Locales supported below

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Locale.html

How will i do the hindi locale any help ? Thanks in advance

Newman

check the below link [Localization in android for indian regional languages][1] [1]: #10944311 – Sharla

@Praveena_Pinki he want how to add Hindi TTS(Test to speech in hindi locale) As there is no support from google He is expecting any other 3rd party libs. – Singley

yes padma kumar you are right – Newman

Answer 1

Hindi is supported by Android -- it is just that there isn't a Locale constant for it.

If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes, then hi is the ISO 639-1 code for Hindi. Also note that Android/Java may also use the ISO 39-3 code which for Hindi is hin.

Therefore, you need to use either:

tts.setLanguage(new Locale("hi"));

or:

tts.setLanguage(new Locale("hin"));

You will also need to use a text-to-speech synthesiser that supports Hindi, otherwise you will get a "language not supported" error. The eSpeak text to speech synthesiser supports Hindi.

I have a port of eSpeak for Android 4.0 and later [1]/[2] for £0.99. This has many improvements and bug fixes over the eyes free port and is kept up-to-date with the latest eSpeak releases.

1. http://reecedunn.co.uk/espeak-for-android
2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reecedunn.espeak

Oleograph

@Oleograph Hi sir, can please help me for Kannada Language. – Elementary

@Oleograph i tried (tts.setLanguage(Locale.forLanguageTag("kan")); like this but not woking – Elementary

pronunciation is very different.How can i achieve it? – Transcendental

Answer 2

You can use this package to convert Krutidev font to Unicode: krutidevtounicode and then you can give the text to tts for speaking it will speak in hindi and if not then install hindi version of tts in mobile/emulator.

var text = KrutidevToUnicode.convertToUnicode("gsyks oYMZ");
FlutterTts flutterTts = FlutterTts();
await flutterTts.speak(text);

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