#289 Text to Speech

[Diego]

Hi Babak:

It would be great to have the text to speech capability that IOS7 API offers:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AVFoundation/Reference/AVSpeechSynthesizer_Ref/Reference/Reference.html

Example:

#import <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h>
…
AVSpeechUtterance *utterance = [AVSpeechUtterance 
                            speechUtteranceWithString:@"Hello world"];
AVSpeechSynthesizer *synth = [[AVSpeechSynthesizer alloc] init];
[synth speakUtterance:utterance];

Greetings

[Gordon]

I would like to see Voice recognition.. Having siri capabilities would be great. Nuance/Dragon seems to work great, and has a free API for development.. Unfortunately, I dont understand Xcode well enough to translate the headers.. There are only a handfull of functions to make this happen..

Can anyone help translate it?

Gordon

[Diego]

Hi Babak:

Any chance we see this feature? I tried to wrap the class AVSpeechSynthesis.h on my own following this guide:

http://delphiblog.twodesk.com/using_os_x_apis_directly_from_delphi

This class belongs to the AVFoundation.framework. However, this class is not defined in "Macapi.Foundation unit", "iosAPI.AVFoundation.pas" or "Macapi.AVFoundation.pas".

I tried to figurate out how to define this new class. I think I have to define it as an interface of an NSObject using a GUID. But I must confess that this is above my programming skills at the moment.

Any help would be appreciated.

Greetings