Ionic TTS not working

ionic-v1
1

Hello, I’m new to Ionic projects and doing some few tests I ended up finding this problem. I don’t really know if is some configuration problem or a framework problem.

I have a simple page with a button that calls the textToSpeech() method.

Code:

import { Component } from ‘@angular/core’;
import {TextToSpeech} from ‘ionic-native’;
import { LoadingController } from ‘ionic-angular’;


@Component({
selector: ‘page-home’,
templateUrl: ‘home.html’
})

export class HomePage {
constructor(public loadingCtrl: LoadingController) {
}

textToSpeech() {
let loader = this.loadingCtrl.create({
content: “Please wait…”,
duration: 3000
});
loader.present();

TextToSpeech.speak({
        text: "Teste em português",
        locale: 'pt-BR',
        rate: 0.75
    });
 }

}

Using the android emulator it works almost fine, despite the detail that the locale is totaly ignored and the speech is the english one reading a portuguese sentence. On my device (Moto-play with the ionic view app) it doesn’t work at all, I click in the button and there is no sound.

Can I have some help with it?

2

Ionic View only supports a limited number of built-in plugins: https://docs.ionic.io/tools/view/#supported-plugins
If you want to test on your device, you should build your own .apk that you also tested in the emulator.

3

Oh, glad to know it.
Really thank you.

But the problem with the locale, any idea?

4

Hi,
I am trying to use TTS.tts and passing a long string approx 5000 charecters but it it not speaking while shrten the string with less then 4000 charetcerts, it is speaking the text.

$scope.speakText = function(text) {
console.log(text);
console.log($scope.data[text]);
$scope.showSpeakBtn = false;
$scope.showStopBtn = true;

if (window.cordova) {
TTS.speak({
text: $scope.data[text],
locale: ‘en-US’,
rate: 1.0
}, function () {

   // Do Something after success

}, function (reason) {
// Handle the error case
});
}
}

Please suggest how to resolve this.

5

Is your topic in the right category? that looks like ionic >= 2 to me.

If im right please change the category of this topic to Ionic.