Android Question Text To Speech

[kisoft]

Hi
By default, the speech synthesizer plays 4000 characters. Can I handle files with more characters?
When I try to read a file with 20,000 characters, I get this error:

Error occurred on line: 123 (Main)
java.lang.RuntimeException: Error speaking text.
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.obejcts.TTS.Speak(TTS.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.shell.Shell.runVoidMethod(Shell.java:777)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.shell.Shell.raiseEventImpl(Shell.java:354)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.shell.Shell.raiseEvent(Shell.java:255)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.ShellBA.raiseEvent2(ShellBA.java:144)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.BA.raiseEvent2(BA.java:180)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.BA.raiseEvent(BA.java:176)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.objects.ViewWrapper$1.onClick(ViewWrapper.java:80)
    at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:6274)
    at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:24859)
    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:789)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:98)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6710)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:770)

 

[JohnC]

Why don't you break up the text into 1000 or so characters at a time, with the break being at the end of sentences, so the pause will be expected while your app sends the next 1000 characters to the TTS engine?

 

[emexes]

Or you can do TTS to audio files, and then play one file whilst preparing the next. This would reduce the inter-batch delay for TTS processing to a small (possibly zero) and constant duration.

Also, if you break on paragraphs rather than sentences, it might be easier to find suitable break/pause points, since most text formats have a newline at the end of a paragraph and/or a blank line between paragraphs.

I have a vague recollection of somebody doing that with a book reader or training program, but can't find the thread.

 

[kisoft]

Thank you for the answer ... I thought there was some way to increase this limit. I will have to divide the text into smaller parts and play it one by one.

I have one more question how to detect the end of the text being read?

I have to test it ...
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/phone-library-update-v1-34.7829/