Text to Speech with Titanium

iOS 7 introduced the speech synthesizer API AVSpeechSynthesizer.  With this API you can have iOS speak a phrase in the language of the text provided.  Used correctly this can add a compelling level of user interaction and direction to your app.

The Utterance iOS Titanium module provides a simple to use API for interacting with AVSpeechSynthesizer in the simulator or on device.

In just a few lines of code you can speak a phrase in any supported language.  Here is an example in Japanese.

First we require the module into our Titanium program

var utterance = require('bencoding.utterance');

Then we create a new Speech object

var speech = utterance.createSpeech();

Finally we call the startSpeaking method and provide the text we wish to have read.

    speech.startSpeaking({
        text:"こんにちは"
    }); 

For a full list of the methods available please visit the project n github here.

Here the module in action

The following is a video showing the module in action.

How to get the module:

•  Documentation
•  Source
•  Compiled Module
•  Example

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