Android TTS not working in device

Question

The TextToSpeech like in

http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/TextToSpeechActivity.html

works fine on th

Answer 1

On my Captivate, I had to manually install (prompted by Google Navigation) the TTS data files to enable speech directions. This may have been because the rom didn't include them. I can't recall if the stock rom had the speech files or not. See this link for how to detect the presence of the right files:

http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/tts.html Basically

Intent checkIntent = new Intent();
checkIntent.setAction(TextToSpeech.Engine.ACTION_CHECK_TTS_DATA);
startActivityForResult(checkIntent, MY_DATA_CHECK_CODE);

and check the result (should be CHECK_VOICE_DATA_PASS)