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TTS player speaking number in words

I have a requirement( in Android code) that TTS player should speak out numbers eg "1234" as "one two three four". However currently its speaking it as "one thousand two hundred and thirty four".

Solution

  • TTS does not allow you to specify how the text should be read so your code has to modify the text input so that it reads the individual numbers.

    I suggest @opalenzuela's mention that a space in between each number. That should cause the TextToSpeech to read the individual numbers.

    If you need some code to help you detect numbers use this:

      private boolean isNumber(String word)
 {
boolean isNumber = false;
  try
  {
      Integer.parseInt(word);
      isNumber = true;
   } catch (NumberFormatException e)
  {
       isNumber = false;
  }
  return isNumber;
}