Programming Tutorials

Text to Speech conversion program in Java

By: Sulfikkar in Java Tutorials on 2010-07-31  

This is a sample java program that explains how to use text to speech conversion.
You can use this program as follows
c:\> javac Speech.java
c:\> java Speech Hello Manikandan

package com.scima;
import com.sun.speech.freetts.FreeTTS;
import com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice;
import com.sun.speech.freetts.VoiceManager;
import com.sun.speech.freetts.audio.SingleFileAudioPlayer;
import java.io.FileInputStream;


/

@author vijay
/
public class Main {

/*
@param args the command line arguments
/
void call(String msg){
System.out.println("U r here");
Voice voice;
FreeTTS freetts;
System.out.println("---------************");
VoiceManager vm=VoiceManager.getInstance();
System.out.println("--------------////");
voice=vm.getVoice("kevin16");
System.setProperty("com.sun.speech.freetts.voice.defaultAudioPlayer", "com.sun.speech.freetts.audio.SingleFileAudioPlayer");
FileInputStream fis ;
SingleFileAudioPlayer sfap;
if(voice==null)
System.out.println("voice is null");
System.out.println("---0---");
if(voice!=null)
{
voice.allocate();
}
System.out.println("---1---");
freetts=new FreeTTS(voice);
String text = new String(msg);
byte b[] = text.getBytes();
if(b==null)
{
System.out.println("no byte array");
System.exit(1);
}
try
{
sfap = (SingleFileAudioPlayer)voice.getDefaultAudioPlayer();
sfap.write(b);


}
catch(Exception e)
{

}
voice.speak(msg);
voice.deallocate();

System.out.println("---------?????-----------");
try {
System.out.println("inside copy try block");
String command="copy \"C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache Tomcat 6.0.18\\bin\\freetts.wav\" \"C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache Tomcat 6.0.18\\webapps\"";
System.out.println("copying file from "+command);
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe /c"+command);
System.out.println("file copied");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

// freetts.setStreamingAudio(true);
// freetts.urlToSpeech("http://10.0.0.109:8084/");
System.out.println("---2---");
// freetts.setAudioFile("c:\\test.wav");
// freetts.shutdown();
System.out.println("calling wav file");
//AePlayWave aw=new AePlayWave("C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache Tomcat 6.0.18/bin/freetts.wav");


System.out.println("---last---");

}
Main(){

}
// static Voice voice;
// static FreeTTS freetts;
// static
// {
// voice=VoiceManager.getInstance().getVoice("kevin16");
// if(voice!=null)
// {
// voice.allocate();
// }
// freetts=new FreeTTS(voice);
// voice.speak("hello,world");
//
// freetts.startup();
// freetts.urlToSpeech("http://10.0.0.109:8080/");
// freetts.setAudioFile("c:/test.wav");
// freetts.shutdown();
// }
Main(String str){

System.out.println("Inside main");
//freetts.setAudioFile("c:/test.wav");
}
public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception {
// TODO code application logic here
}

}