Android Text to Speech(TTS) TextToSpeech implementation across the APIs

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Example

Cold observable implementation, emits true when TTS engine finishes speaking, starts speaking when subscribed. Notice that API level 21 introduces different way to perform speaking:

public class RxTextToSpeech {

@Nullable RxTTSObservableOnSubscribe audio;

WeakReference<Context> contextRef;

public RxTextToSpeech(Context context) {
    this.contextRef = new WeakReference<>(context);
}

public void requestTTS(FragmentActivity activity, int requestCode) {
    Intent checkTTSIntent = new Intent();
    checkTTSIntent.setAction(TextToSpeech.Engine.ACTION_CHECK_TTS_DATA);
    activity.startActivityForResult(checkTTSIntent, requestCode);
}

public void cancelCurrent() {
    if (audio != null) {
        audio.dispose();
        audio = null;
    }
}

public Observable<Boolean> speak(String textToRead) {
    audio = new RxTTSObservableOnSubscribe(contextRef.get(), textToRead, Locale.GERMANY);
    return Observable.create(audio);
}


public static class RxTTSObservableOnSubscribe extends UtteranceProgressListener
        implements ObservableOnSubscribe<Boolean>,
        Disposable, Cancellable, TextToSpeech.OnInitListener {

    volatile boolean disposed;
    ObservableEmitter<Boolean> emitter;
    TextToSpeech textToSpeech;
    String text = "";
    Locale selectedLocale;
    Context context;

    public RxTTSObservableOnSubscribe(Context context, String text, Locale locale) {
        this.selectedLocale = locale;
        this.context = context;
        this.text = text;
    }

    @Override public void subscribe(ObservableEmitter<Boolean> e) throws Exception {
        this.emitter = e;
        if (context == null) {
            this.emitter.onError(new Throwable("nullable context, cannot execute " + text));
        } else {
            this.textToSpeech = new TextToSpeech(context, this);
        }
    }

    @Override @DebugLog public void dispose() {
        if (textToSpeech != null) {
            textToSpeech.setOnUtteranceProgressListener(null);
            textToSpeech.stop();
            textToSpeech.shutdown();
            textToSpeech = null;
        }
        disposed = true;
    }

    @Override public boolean isDisposed() {
        return disposed;
    }

    @Override public void cancel() throws Exception {
        dispose();
    }

    @Override public void onInit(int status) {

        int languageCode = textToSpeech.setLanguage(selectedLocale);

        if (languageCode == android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech.LANG_COUNTRY_AVAILABLE) {
            textToSpeech.setPitch(1);
            textToSpeech.setSpeechRate(1.0f);
            textToSpeech.setOnUtteranceProgressListener(this);
            performSpeak();
        } else {
            emitter.onError(new Throwable("language " + selectedLocale.getCountry() + " is not supported"));
        }
    }

    @Override public void onStart(String utteranceId) {
        //no-op
    }

    @Override public void onDone(String utteranceId) {
        this.emitter.onNext(true);
        this.emitter.onComplete();
    }

    @Override public void onError(String utteranceId) {
        this.emitter.onError(new Throwable("error TTS " + utteranceId));
    }

    void performSpeak() {

        if (isAtLeastApiLevel(21)) {
            speakWithNewApi();
        } else {
            speakWithOldApi();
        }
    }

    @RequiresApi(api = 21) void speakWithNewApi() {
        Bundle params = new Bundle();
        params.putString(TextToSpeech.Engine.KEY_PARAM_UTTERANCE_ID, "");
        textToSpeech.speak(text, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_ADD, params, uniqueId());
    }

    void speakWithOldApi() {
        HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<>();
        map.put(TextToSpeech.Engine.KEY_PARAM_UTTERANCE_ID, uniqueId());
        textToSpeech.speak(text, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_ADD, map);
    }

    private String uniqueId() {
        return UUID.randomUUID().toString();
    }
}

public static boolean isAtLeastApiLevel(int apiLevel) {
    return Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= apiLevel;
}

}



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