Save tts as audio file

Question

How can I generate an audio file from a TexttoSpeech to share with other services (sms, Whats, messenger, ...)?

I created this function to share

private void shareAudio() 
{
    Intent intent = new Intent( Intent.ACTION_SEND );
    intent.setType("audio/3gpp");
    startActivity( intent );
}

but I have no idea how to "treat" tts before, any idea?

Answer 1

Alternative 1

The library Texttospeech does not support audio recording, however, may try to enter recording mode while you speak through the class Mediarecord:

MediaRecorder minhaRecorder = new MediaRecorder();

To start a recording, you need to use the methods prepare() and start():

minhaRecorder.prepare();
minhaRecorder.start();

A Texttospeech can only be used to synthesize text.

It is important to note that not all languages are supported by API Texttospeech. Therefore it is interesting to execute the method isLanguageAvailable to see whether or not you can use a particular language in this structure.

Alternative 2

This would be another alternative, if you didn’t want to use the user’s voice. You can use Google Translator to read the text that was capitured by voice and convert to MP3. Then your job would be to save this MP3 inside your application, but it would only work if you have Internet, because you would access Google Translator in real time. See the link below using the word "test".

http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&total=1&idx=0&textlen=32&client=tw-ob&q=Teste&tl=Pt

Details

• Audio Capture
• An Introduction to Text-To-Speech in Android