How to stop or pause texto to speech in App Inventor 2. Thanks.

[Jose Palacios]

Hi. I am trying to use App Inventor 2 using text to speech, and I would
like to know, what can I do to stop or pause text to speech.
I was trying that but really, I don't know what can I do.
I would like your help or comments about that.
Thank you and have a great weekend.
Sincerely
Jose I Palacios

[Taifun]

try a search in the forum like this https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mitappinventortest/text$20to$20speech$20stop

Taifun

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[Jose Palacios]

Thank you for your example Taifun, but I would like to use a text like a one, two or more paragraphs, using read and stop text to speech.

This example works only by reading ans stop with syllable and I need to read and stop a paragraphs.

Please, could you help me.

I will appreciate your cooperation.

Thank you.

[Taifun]

I did not provide an example, I tried to show you how to search the forum

as you have seen after looking at the blocks or reading in the documentation http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/reference/components/media.html#TextToSpeech the text to speech component does not have a stop or pause block

what you can do is to be creative and to find a workaround yourself

or do a search in the forum and see, what others found out

also you could write your own extension and create a block yourself...

more information see here https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mitappinventortest/Ip2AX036d0U/5NJlAEbFCgAJ

however that will be more advanced and will require some Java skills...

[Scott Ferguson]

Here ya go...

The user enters a code which, when inserted in text to be spoken is interpreted as a pause code, stopping speech at that point until a button is pressed.

The '~' (tilde) character was used in the example, but any text could be used such as a custom xml tag: '<pause>', for example.

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[Scott Ferguson]

Jose responded to me via email indicating that my initial solution did not meet his requirements which are that speech playback should pause when the user presses a button, then continue playback when a button is pressed.

 

I initally tried splitting the text at every word, but that results in mechanical, halting spoken text.

A better solution is to break the text at natural points where punctuation marks occur.

Then if the user presses a button during playback of a phrase, speech stops when the phrase has been spoken.

That is how this solution works.

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[Scott Ferguson]

Jose again responded via email asking that I help with adding a reset feature.

Please do not use my personal email unless I OK it first.

To add a reset feature to the app, all you need to do is add a reset button and include the attached blocks.

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