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Speaking Entered Text

I am currently creating an app where I need the app to speak what the user has entered.

Example: if user entered the word cat I need the app to say cat.

I am using Xcode 5. Any help will be greatly appreciated. If you understand it would be kind of like a dictation app.

Solution

  • first import <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h>
    the you need an AVSpeechSynthesizer:

    AVSpeechSynthesizer *synthesizer = [[AVSpeechSynthesizer alloc] init];

    and can use AVSpeechUtterance to speak strings:

    AVSpeechUtterance *utterance = [[AVSpeechUtterance alloc] initWithString:@"textToSpeak"];
//adjust the speed
utterance.rate = AVSpeechUtteranceDefaultSpeechRate; 
//set the language
utterance.voice = [AVSpeechSynthesisVoice voiceWithLanguage:@"en-us"];
//speak it
[self.synthesizer speakUtterance:utterance];