CHANGING THE LANGUAGE OF TEXT TOO SPEECH COMPONENT

[mark rosel]

hello App Inventor :) Im from Philippines and im a College Student taking Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. And im here here to ask something i have a subject artificial intelligence and i choose t develop an adroid app and i found this platform but i need an suggestion, opinion or maybe a tutorial on how can i change the language of the component of text to speech, artificial intelligence subject is a thesis also, my professor ask me if i can change the language to Filipino language and wow, i got a big question mark on my face, Please help me guy. I was hoping that im on the right hand with the right people :) more power guys :)

[Enis]

It's probably a combination of the language your device is set to use for it's Text-To-Speech and your text values.  Are your values in English or Phillipino?

Check the Text-To-Speech language set on the device...

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[fabio bottarelli]

near evry element there is a question mark,you click it then you click more information, in shows a browser page,click on media component and you go on the "text to speach"component and ther is writed all you need

(sorry for the english,it is not my language)

[SteveJG]

Text to speech can be selected to respond to many languages ...  Filipino  = Tagalog?    Spanish?   

The following article shows the languages the TextToSpeech component 'knows' :  http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/reference/components/media.html#TextToSpeech   In the country codes the code for the Philippines is PHL... however it is listed under the English versions in the article.  Experiment?

This seems to indicate that Tagalog may be supported:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7973023/what-is-the-list-of-supported-languages-locales-on-android 

The alternative is to get a TTS engine that understands  the Filipino language... One of these links might be helpful:  https://www.google.com/search?q=Android+fillipino+tts&oq=Android+fillipino+tts&aqs=chrome..69i57.8911j0j9&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=Android+tts+engines

Good luck with your project.

Regards,

Steve

[mark rosel]

HEY GUYS THANKS FOR ANSWERING MY QUESTION,NOW SO IT DEPENDS ON THE PHONE IM USING ?, YESTERDAY I'VE TRIED TO FIND ANDROID PHONE THAT SUPPORT TAGALOG LANGUAGE ON TTS BUT IM SO FAILED HAHA. CAN I DOWNLOAD THAT LANGUAGE IS THAT POSSIBLE?DO YOU KNOW WHAT KIND OF ANDROID PHONE SUPPORT THAT LANGUAGE. THANKS

[SteveJG]

It may not be that simple to get Tagalog.

http://www.greenbot.com/article/2105862/how-to-get-started-with-google-text-to-speech.html

The Google TTS ...Languages supported: Dutch, English (India), English (United Kingdom), English (United States), French, German, Hindi, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (United States).  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.tts&hl=en

Perhaps something here can help?   https://play.google.com/store/search?q=%22text%20to%20speech%20tagalog%22&c=apps&hl=en

[mark rosel]

I GUESS SO,ITS HARD TO FIND ANDROID SUPPORTED BY TAGALOG,I GUESS I WILL CHECK THE ANDROID LOCAL PHONES HERE IN THE PHIL. THANKS BRO :)