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In the Feature Requests and Building Externals Forums, I asked to have text to speech for Android . No one replied with a suggestion so I searched the forums.
I found a script by Terryho that sends some text out to Google and returns a wave file which speaks the text:
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.ph ... ate#p92097
This worked on my iMac but wouldn't on Android.
I spent days trying to figure it out until I found I needed to check the internet box in the Application Permissions in the
Standalone Settings for the Android app.
I had the code make an mp3 file.
Here is the code I use:
on mouseUp
set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath("Documents")
put "Hello World" into tpostsound
replace space with "%20" in tpostsound
put "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=" & tpostsound into tpostURL
get URL(tpostURL)
put it into URL ("binfile:abc.mp3")
if the environment is "mobile" then
play specialFolderPath("Documents") & "/"&abc.mp3
end if
end mouseUp

Thanks! Nice one!

Hi lodijoe,
Thanks for this good new
You said it worked on your mac
It works fine with a player but not with a simple "play myFile" which just make noise.
I noticed a strange player's behavior when i tried use .aif files although the file exists and the finder can play it.
I dont understand what is the problem. I use "play myFile" with a lot of .aif files on OSX and it works fine
Best regards
Jean-Marc

Works really well.

I was thinking that this approach may work with https://foauth.org/ so you can access a whole range of services with a few lines of code.

Wow
The size of files created with this method are very small compared same sounds recorded with the resident textToSpeech.
First tries in french are good. I will test some specialities of french langage like
"Les poules du couvent couvent"
Good new this sentence is correctly spoken and the size of the file is only 8 Ko
How is it possible ?
best regards
Jean-Marc

lodijoe,

Is there a limit to the size of the text file you can pass this way?

If implemented this way, the feature would only be available when the device has internet access and for as long as Google makes the service available online.

Ivona voices are the best and they have a cloud service.

Anyone know how to convert:

https://tts.eu-west-1.ivonacloud.com/CreateSpeech
?Input.Data=Does%20Mary%20have%20a%20little%20lamb%3F
&Input.Type=text%2Fplain
&OutputFormat.Codec=MP3
&OutputFormat.SampleRate=22050
&Parameters.Rate=slow
&Voice.Name=Amy
&Voice.Language=en-GB
&X-Amz-Date=20130913T092054Z
&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256
&X-Amz-Credential=MyAccessKey%2F20130913%2Feu-west-1%2Ftts%2Faws4_request
&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host
&X-Amz-Signature=2cdfef28d5c5f6682280600a6141a8940c608cfefacb47f172329cbadb5864cc

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