General :: Broken Text-to-speech Engine?
Jan 3, 2013
Whenever I try to access my text-to-speech settings, I always get the error: "The application Settings (process com.android.settings) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." Not sure how to fix this. I've been trying to use utter! and Assistant, but neither give me voice feedback, and utter! tells me that the text-to-speech engine initialization failed. how to fix and/or rebuild the tts engine? I don't really want to do a factory reset or reinstall my ROM. Also, please note that the ROM is not the problem, I've already researched this. Also note that I have Google Voice and Voice Search both installed, and both work just fine. I can input commands vocally, but the text-to-speech issue does not funcion.
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Nov 29, 2010
I would like to set up custom notification sounds for the various apps (email, message, FB, etc.). I would prefer that instead of using the various cute sound effects that come with the phone, I want to have a voice that says, "new email" or "new message" instead of the various beeps and chimes. Ideally, I would like to use the text to speech engine that comes with the phone to do this like what the Navigation app. How can I set up the notifications to activate the text to speech engine to say a certain phrase? If that is not possible, how can I activate the text to speech engine to say a phrase and then save the output to a sound file which I can then select as the notification for those various apps?
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Jun 23, 2010
I have a service from where i am trying to start a TextToSpeech engine ,but it seems that it's not working , so is it possible to start tts from a service? code...
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Jan 7, 2010
It seems to me that the method "speak" of class TextToSpeech only works in method onInit or on Utterance Completed. However, onInit and onUtteranceCompleted don't have any parameter for passing strings. In the following code, I tried to define a global string arraylist outside the methods and used the arraylist for string input.For some reason , it didn't work out.But the engine did speak "did you sleep well". public class TTS extends Activity implements OnInitListener,OnUtteranceCompletedListener,Runnable ArrayList<String> content=new ArrayList<String>();
int MY_DATA_CHECK_CODE=50;
private TextToSpeech mTts;
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
content.add("test");
content.add("another test");
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.splash);
Intent checkIntent = new Intent();
checkIntent.setAction(TextToSpeech.Engine.ACTION_CHECK_TTS_DATA);
startActivityForResult(checkIntent, MY_DATA_CHECK_CODE);
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
if (requestCode == MY_DATA_CHECK_CODE) {
if (resultCode == TextToSpeech.Engine.CHECK_VOICE_DATA_PASS) {
// success, create the TTS instance
mTts = new TextToSpeech(this,this);
} else { // missing data, install it
Intent installIntent = new Intent();
installIntent.setAction(
TextToSpeech.Engine.ACTION_INSTALL_TTS_DATA);
startActivity(installIntent);
} public void onInit(int status){
if(status==TextToSpeech.SUCCESS){
mTts.setLanguage(Locale.US);
mTts.setOnUtteranceCompletedListener(this);
String myText1 = "Did you sleep well?";
mTts.speak(myText1, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, null);
for(int i=0;i<content.size();i++){
mTts.speak(co
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Nov 17, 2009
I would like to be able to say an email or text message to myself or my wife sometimes. When I hold down the input field I get an input choice menu but the only option there is the Android Keyboard.Am I doing it wrong?What am I missing? I would also like to have it read emails to me, and word docs (or just .txt).I have a Kindle but my phone is a little more convenient for something I would rather read in bits and pieces while walking to and fro the car or whatever.
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Sep 7, 2013
I wonder if there is ability to replicate this feature from iOS :
In iOS you can turn on Accessibility function that add the "Speak" button to the "selection menu". And if you click, it would turn on Text To Speech engine and read selected text. Can I do the same thing in Android ?
PS: I assume that regular app could not modify "copy, paste, cut menu" so I probably need custom ROM. (I'm particularly interested Nexus 7 2013 solution, but I assume that solution should be universal because it is just modification to the "Selection menu" and add button)
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Apr 13, 2012
Can a droid read back a non audio book from my kindle accout, like my kindle does?
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Aug 22, 2012
Does a text to speech exist that sounds like megatron from transformers? Or optimus prime? Just something uber cool like that?
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Jul 28, 2013
So, I have this annoyance on the S4 that occurs whenever I use the in-built Gallery and Internet app. Whenever I select a photo to delete, the phone goes "Tick box, ticked." Or when I unelected a photo, "Tick box, unticked." Another example of this is when I go onto the Internet on the phone, and I go to a webpage, the phone goes "Page, refreshed." I've tried to turn everything associated with this problem, off but it just keeps re-occurring. How to turn this off.
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Jun 8, 2012
I rooted my phone (Samsung Galaxy S Showcase i500) the other day and deleted a lot of the stock apk files, the ones that I thought I didn't need .
One of them was Voice Search (and also voice commands, if that matters). Now, my speech or voice to text in my text messaging program is not working. Whenever I press the mic icon, nothing happens. Through searching I think I've determined it's because I deleted the voice search apk?
Whenever I go to the Market to download Google Voice Search, the Market says its already "installed"...but obviously its not?! I've tried downloading the file from other places but when I try to install it says "There is a problem parsing the package."
Bottom line, how do I get my speech to text back?
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Aug 26, 2013
This appears to be affect multiple brands and models. About a 3-4 days ago it started deleting previous sentences or phrases and only leaving the most recent phrase you spoke minus the last word. Long delays as well. As mentioned, it is affecting multiple phones based on other comments throughout internet. Very frustrating!
Initially I thought it was related to the recent Maps update, but rolled back to older version and no change. Not sure about the recent change for Google Voice to Hangouts, but that seems like a possibility . .
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Aug 23, 2013
I have a Samsung Galaxy Centura and I'm using Go SMS Pro and SwiftKey.
Starting today, when I try to text using the voice to text feature, every time I start a new sentence, the previous sentence disappears. This has never happened to me before. I tried repeatedly, to the point I was cursing, and now it is also blocking out offensive words also. I went to Language and Input > Google Voice Typing and made sure Block offensive words is not checked.
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Nov 8, 2013
I have a Sprint Galaxy 4. I understand that there is a google speak to text program already installed in the phone but I cannot find it. how to make it work?
Also, it is important to be that a [B]program not only reads the incoming texts but that I can respond to them handsfree via the Blue tooth speaker in my car. Can I do that with the google. program? If not, what is another good program to use?
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Feb 18, 2014
I am needing to recover text messages from a damaged phone to be able to present as evidence. The phone is a Motorala Razr Maxx HD. The screen is broken and the battery has been disconnected. I am hoping for maybe some program that will allow my to plug it into my computer and pull my old text messages off of it or any other ideas on how to retrieve the files.
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Apr 4, 2012
I am developing an app that uses the speech recognizer but I only want the speech recognizer to listen for speech for x number of seconds regardless of when the last speech input was or was not recognized. I looked through the speech recognizer documentation and I didn't see parameter to set the exact time the speech recognizer runs for. How I could accomplish this?
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Dec 7, 2009
I somehow activated the text to speech for incoming calls and text messages. (Says the name of contact calling/texting).How do I shut this off? I've spent days trying to figure it out with no luck.
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Aug 22, 2010
I want to create speech to text app,to get started i got sample code from android developer site like this..
package com.example.android.apis.app;
package com.example.android.apis.app;
import com.example.android.apis.R;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
[Code] ....
And i have created,voice_recognition.xml in layout and made changes too...As given in the code, Arraylist? Should i create arraylist?/and what is simple_list_item_1??should it be created in the layout or is it present in the api?
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Mar 1, 2009
since android now has speech to text search, anyone know if the API is available to the developers?
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Oct 13, 2010
i want to create speech to text app in android. can anybody tell me about its possiblity.thank you
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Jul 11, 2010
This isn't particularly something I use, but I noticed today that it doesn't. Is it a 2.1 thing, as it worked on my old hero.Is this build of 2.1 just missing the voice recognition files or something? Any way of getting it working?Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk
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Aug 15, 2010
how do i do speech to text on sms on my desire? I know its possible since a buddy at work shown me how before i switched to a desire but cant suss it out.
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Jun 29, 2010
Have now got 2.1 on my Hero hooray but cannot see one feature I was looking forward to which is speech to text.Have installed Voice Search ok along with the synth but my keyboard still doesn't have the mic icon.
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Jun 10, 2010
How to use the text-to-speech? There is a setting for it but the option is greyed out to download the library.
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Mar 13, 2010
I see the option is on my nexus one but I have no idea how to get it? I go to it in teh settings and the option to install the voice data is blacked out for me. I would like to use this feature, does anyone know how to help me?
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May 29, 2010
How do you get speech text to work on the samsung moment?
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Jun 7, 2010
we have ported android 2.1 on one of our custom board.I was checking Text to speech functionality on it.I click Settings->Text to Speech.it gives n new screen All options other than "Install voice data" is greyed out.When I click on install voice data.it says "The application Pico TTS has stoppped unexpectedly. PLease try again ".Can anyone point me what is the issue or how to install voice data on my board having eclair 2.1.
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May 12, 2010
I have the 2.1 leak v3 installed and just realized I do not have the speech to text button while in message compose screen.Is there something I am missing?
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May 18, 2010
Don't know if it's been covered, but I bought Better Keyboard last night ($2.99). Got it installed and it has a microphone on it. My speech to text now works perfect.A little slow, but I like it.
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Dec 29, 2009
Is there a good speech to text app for the htc hero at this time? I also read that handcent has this but i downloaded handcent sms (new) and do not see anywhere that will enable me to use the speech to text once I open it to send a message.
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Sep 4, 2010
i want to develop apps based on speech to text conversion.can you please share your suggestions and how to develop this app.
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