Android Question Is There Any Way to REALLY Detect when Text-To-Speech is Finished Speaking?

[Shadow&Max]

I've been playing with this for months, searched many times, and have never found a really good solution.

If I use:

Dim ph as Phone

Sub ph_TextToSpeechFinish (IntentAsIntent)
    Do Something Here
End Sub

it NEVER FIRES when the text is ACTUALLY finished speaking. Of course, the duration of the speech could be shorter or longer based upon the speed set, but that event fires WAY before the text is actually finished.

Is there a TRUE way to know it's really done TALKING?

If I 'speak:' "The Lazy Brown Dog...," I need to do something when it's over. But if the text is "The lazy brown dog jumped over the split rail fence in the back of the woods right by the cedar tree, but near the stone wall built by the pilgrims," the event fires somewhere after the lazy dog jumped. But I can't do what I need to do until the entire sentence is completely finished.

 

[LucaMs]

Have you tried looking on the web?

I found this post, in which there is also a link to another code.

it is Java code, but you or someone else could adapt to B4A

 

[lemonisdead]

Hi,
Erel has advised

This is a limit of the internal speech engine. You can use a timer together with this isSpeaking method:

and link to isSpeaking method : http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/tts.7500/#post-207738

When Timer_Tick check if isSpeaking returns False

It works great for me. Hope for you too.

 

[Shadow&Max]

lemonisdead:

Worked perfectly... Thanks so much for the link... Thank you Erel for making this happen.

lemon... gotta ask you something... I searched over and over for this solution. Can you tell me what search term you used, what OS you're using, and what browser? I'm wondering if different browsers yield different results???

 

[lemonisdead]

I'm glad it works for you too.
There is no magic or any problem : it was in my previously taken notes

 

[Shadow&Max]

Oh! Thanks! Jeez, I searched for that forever! Thank you so much again.

I actually spent a week writing a workaround for one part of my app, which works, but it was like alchemy. I had to do this in another part of the app in a place far less complex, and it should have been so easy, but my original alchemy DIDN'T work in the simple one!

Much appreciated!