How to pause android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech?

Question

I\'m playing text with android TTS - android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech

I use: TextToSpeech.speak to speak and .stop to stop. Is

Answer 1

Also, an escaped quote (\") seems to have it pause somewhat as well - at least, if you put it around a word it adds space around the word.

Answer 2

I used splitting of string and used playsilence() like below:

public void speakSpeech(String speech) {

    HashMap<String, String> myHash = new HashMap<String, String>();

    myHash.put(TextToSpeech.Engine.KEY_PARAM_UTTERANCE_ID, "done");

    String[] splitspeech = speech.split("\\.");

    for (int i = 0; i < splitspeech.length; i++) {

        if (i == 0) { // Use for the first splited text to flush on audio stream

            textToSpeech.speak(splitspeech[i].toString().trim(),TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, myHash);

        } else { // add the new test on previous then play the TTS

            textToSpeech.speak(splitspeech[i].toString().trim(), TextToSpeech.QUEUE_ADD,myHash);
        }

        textToSpeech.playSilence(750, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_ADD, null);
    }
}

Answer 3

divide the messages into parts and listen for last utterance by using onutteranceprogress listener

 tts.playSilence(1250, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_ADD, null);

Answer 4

I haven't yet tried this, but I need to do the same thing. My thinking is to first split your speech text into an array of words.

Then create a recursive function that plays the next word after the current word is finished, while keeping a counter of the current word.