Sylwia Dorota Kedzia Sylwia is a Java developer. She is very passionate about programming and all things Polish.

How to enable Text to Speech in JavaFX and Swing Applications

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As a developer at IDR Solutions I spend a lot of my time working on the JPedal Java PDF library and lately I have been improving functionality with text to speech. I thought it might be useful to show you how to implement text to speech in both JavaFX and Swing applications in this tutorial.

JavaFX

1. Download jars:

For the JavaFX application we are using the java-google-translate-text-to-speech jars.

JavaFX jars

Download both of the jars and add them to your JavaFX application:

JavaFX libraries

2. Create GUI and add the functionality to the button:

TextToSpeach JavaFX

button.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {

    @Override
    public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
        Audio audio = Audio.getInstance();
        InputStream sound = null;
        try {
        sound = audio.getAudio(text.getText(), Language.ENGLISH);
        } catch (IOException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(JavaFX_TextToSpeech.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
        try {
        audio.play(sound);
        } catch (JavaLayerException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(JavaFX_TextToSpeech.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
    }
});

Using java-google-translate-text-to-speech jars you can also build simple translator where you can translate your content into other languages.

Java Swing

1. Download jars:

For the Swing application we are using the FreeTTS jars.

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Download the freets-1.2.2-bin.zip. Unzip the folder and add the jars from \freetts-1.2.2-bin\freetts-1.2\lib location to your application.

Swing libraries

2. Create GUI and add the functionality to the button:

swing gui

 button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
        VoiceManager vm = VoiceManager.getInstance();
        Voice voice = vm.getVoice("kevin16");

        voice.allocate();

        voice.speak(text.getText());
    }
});

Find out how to implement text to speech functionality in our JPedal Java PDF Viewer in this tutorial.

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Sylwia Dorota Kedzia Sylwia is a Java developer. She is very passionate about programming and all things Polish.

2 Replies to “How to enable Text to Speech in JavaFX and…”

  1. I am getting the following:-

    java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://ipv4.google.com/sorry/IndexRedirect?continue=http://translate.google.com/translate_tts%3Fq%3DHello%2520World%26tl%3Den&q=CGMSBCnes6gY3Ma9vAUiGQDxp4NLtQVq8cs6ppwO6rZqdlfDtNq3DDM
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1840)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1441)
    at com.gtranslate.Audio.getAudio(Audio.java:34)

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