B4J Question Text to Speech for B4J [SOLVED]

[Tim Chapman]

I am having a devil of a time trying to get TTS to work for B4J.

I have been trying to follow the directions here:

jFreeTTS Text2Speech Library

Hi there, it's a pleasure to get this working... My jFreeTTS is a library that I've just managed to cook for text to speech using the FreeTTS library. 1. Download the FreeTTS library code from their link and extract it. 2. From the lib folder, double click jsapi.exe and install that. 3...

www.b4x.com

I have followed the instructions down to step 4.
I have put all the jar files in the additional libraries\B4J folder.
But, I can't get any libraries to show up in the libraries list.
How do I do so?

 

[teddybear]

What is all jar files you said ? did you go FreeTTS to download those jars? what error message did you get?

 

[Daestrum]

If they are jars without a corresponding xml file they will never show up in the libraries tab. Sounds like you need to have #AdditionalJar: lines added for the jars.

 

[Tim Chapman]

I tried that. It still did not work. Has anyone actually gotten FreeTTS to work?

 

[Tim Chapman]

I took another shot at this today.
I got it all to work.
I can't upload the complete zipped file here because the file is too large.
So, I uploaded it here: www.arrowantennas.com/jFreeTTS_B4J.zip

Voices are available here for different languages:

Wayback Machine

I uploaded 3 voices for the US in the zip file above. So if you want US English, you don't have to do anything but unzip the file.
Move the Archiver files to your additional libraries.
Put the jar files in your additional libraries\B4J folder.
I think that should do it. Please let me know if I have missed any steps in explaining it. It works on my computer.

 

[Tim Chapman]

My previous upload had an error in the file structure for the us1, us2 and us3 voices. That is not fixed and a new upload has been placed. When you unzip a voice file, it can have two folders deep where it should have one. Objects\mbrola\us1\us1\... is incorrect. Objects\mbrola\us1\... is correct.
This is all taken care of in the zip file above. Also as of 8/27/2024, I replaced the zip file which I had accidentally removed from my website. It is now available again. Please let me know if you encounter problems.