Convert Text to Speech– Java – freetts1.2

When I was searching to convert the Text to Speech using Java, I got many options but most are not proper and little complex to understand and use. Finally I found a simple and good text to speech API freetts1.2, which is simple, easy to use and free. You can download the freetts1.2 in the below given link.  I have given a simple program for your easy understanding of this API. Using this program you can hear the voice of the text and also you can save the text as a .wav file. First download and add the freetts1.2 API into your project. Use the below code 

Simple program,

import com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice;

import com.sun.speech.freetts.VoiceManager;

import com.sun.speech.freetts.audio.SingleFileAudioPlayer;

import javax.sound.sampled.AudioFileFormat.Type;

public class Example {

            static String voiceName = "kevin16"; // Voice type "alan","kevin","kevin16"

            static String voiceMsg = "Hi How are you?"; // The text to Speech

            static String fileLocation = "D://select"; // filename without extension

            public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

                        VoiceManager voiceManager = VoiceManager.getInstance();

                        Voice voice = voiceManager.getVoice(voiceName);

                        voice.setStyle("casual"); //Voice style "business", "casual", "robotic", "breathy"

                        voice.allocate();            

                        SingleFileAudioPlayer audioPlayer = new SingleFileAudioPlayer(

                                                fileLocation, Type.WAVE);     //To Create the wav file for the text

                        voice.setAudioPlayer(audioPlayer);

                        voice.setVolume(100);

                        voice.speak(voiceMsg); //Speaks the text

                        voice.deallocate();

                        audioPlayer.close();

            }

}

 

The above program will convert the Text “Hi how are you?” to voice and save it in as “D:/select.wav”. If you would like to hear the audio in your system without saving, Comment the following lines in the program and run the application.

SingleFileAudioPlayer audioPlayer = new SingleFileAudioPlayer(fileLocation, Type.WAVE);

voice.setAudioPlayer(audioPlayer);

audioPlayer.close();

Now you can hear the voice.

Links you can download.

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/f/project/fr/freetts/FreeTTS/FreeTTS%201.2.2/
http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php 

Hope it is useful!!!!! Have Fun:)