Finnish text to speech: "language not available"

[djyotta]

Finnish text to speech: "language not available"

[GoogleCodeExporter]

It took me a while to find teh custom SVOX speech downloads.  Initially I was 
not aware that Android supported Finish speech.  It says that
"The TTS engine that ships with the Android platform supports a number of 
languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish."
http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/tts.html

There are a couple of things to check.  Does the Finnish speech work with other 
applications?  There should be a 'Lang=fi' entry in the .conf file so and-bible 
requests the tts for the 'fi' locale and that must be failing for some reason.

Here is the simple piece of code and so I can't see what could go wrong:

  int result = mTts.setLanguage(new Locale(this.bookLanguageCode));
  if (result == TextToSpeech.LANG_MISSING_DATA ||
      result == TextToSpeech.LANG_NOT_SUPPORTED) {
      // Language data is missing or the language is not supported.
      showError(context.getString(R.string.tts_lang_not_available));

Original comment by [email protected] on 7 Oct 2010 at 6:06

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I have tried Finnish speech with google translator, and it is working fine 
there. Speech engine is not standard one, but is chosen with "Tts service 
extended" program to "Svox Classic TTS". 

I will play around more with this issue later. 

best regards, Tuomas

Original comment by [email protected] on 7 Oct 2010 at 9:18

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I don't know if you got any further with this problem but I have added a little 
extra debugging around the tts locale selection in the latest build.

Original comment by [email protected] on 21 Oct 2010 at 8:58

[GoogleCodeExporter]

sorry, my investigations are now forced to be lower priority due to other 
things, but I tried now the latest build, which still says "Language is not 
available."

Original comment by [email protected] on 21 Oct 2010 at 9:10

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi, same problem on my phone and with german: "Language not available" if I 
want the software to read the text.

Original comment by [email protected] on 10 Oct 2011 at 12:28

[GoogleCodeExporter]

German should be available but And Bible depends on Android TTS being installed.

Have you installed and configured the German TTS in Android Settings/Voice 
input & output/Install voice data.

Original comment by [email protected] on 10 Oct 2011 at 1:06

[GoogleCodeExporter]

instead.of.language not available, how about option to.use the deault?  Better 
than nothing!
Doug

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 May 2012 at 7:00

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You guys are all fortunate to own an Android device that includes TTS support.

My Storage Options Scroll Excel 7 tablet does not even have the Google TTS, and 
because of this, even if I install a third party TTS app such as IVONA, there 
is no option in system settings that enables me to configure it for use.

All I can do is hope for the best that there will be a firmware update from 
Storage Options to remedy this omission.

Meanwhile, it would be very nice if And Bible could be enhanced to support 
synchronized audio output from ancillary audio files, in the same way that 
xulsword  does.

See http://code.google.com/p/xulsword/

Original comment by [email protected] on 6 Dec 2012 at 7:59

[GoogleCodeExporter]

This is very old and there are no recent updates.  TTS is working fine if 
configured correctly in Android as far as I know.  I am closing this issue.

Original comment by [email protected] on 15 Mar 2014 at 8:53

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