In today's Google I/O keynote, Romain Guy demonstrated a high quality
multilingual TTS with a modified version of the Translate app, and
announced that TTS will be a feature in the next release of Android,
codenamed "Donuts"!

This TTS is heavily based on the current Text-To-Speech library from
the Eyes-Free Project, and I am working with the Android team to
integrate it so that it will be shipped as part of the platform. The
developer facing API will be almost the same as what the current Text-
To-Speech library looks like; migration should be quite easy, and
early adopters will have a leg up as they will have already done the
work of developing talking apps.

I would like to thank everyone who has helped with this project.
Special props to Dominic Mazzoni for helping port eSpeak so that we
had a proof of concept speech engine and to Jean-Michel Trivi who is
helping us get the TTS code into the framework.

Also, I'd like to give a huge shout out to all the developers who have
developed/are developing talking apps on Android. The developer
interest in TTS was a factor in having this as part of the platform,
so thank you for your support and I look forward to seeing even more
talking apps on Android!

-Charles

P.S. If you come to our talk at I/O tomorrow, you'll get free Swiss
chocolates. I'm serious about this. Hope to see you there!