Speech synthesis: Difference between revisions

=={{header|Scala}}==

{{libheader|FreeTTS|1.2}}

<lang scala>import java.util.Locale

import javax.speech.Central

import javax.speech.synthesis.{ Synthesizer, SynthesizerModeDesc }

object ScalaSpeaker extends App {

def speech(text: String) = {

if (!text.trim.isEmpty()) {

val voiceName = "kevin16"

System.setProperty("freetts.voices", "com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.cmu_us_kal.KevinVoiceDirectory")

try {

Central.registerEngineCentral("com.sun.speech.freetts.jsapi.FreeTTSEngineCentral")

val synth =

Central.createSynthesizer(new SynthesizerModeDesc(Locale.US))

synth.allocate()

val desc = synth.getEngineModeDesc() match {

case g2: SynthesizerModeDesc => g2

case _ => throw new ClassCastException

}

synth.getSynthesizerProperties()

.setVoice(desc.getVoices().find(_.toString() == voiceName).get)

//synth.resume()

synth.speakPlainText(text, null)

synth.waitEngineState(Synthesizer.QUEUE_EMPTY)

synth.deallocate()

} catch {

case ex: Throwable => ex.printStackTrace()

}

}

}

speech("If it ain't Dutch, It ain't much.")

}</lang>