TTSlib - speaking halts drawing

andyproce..

TTSlib - speaking halts drawing

in Contributed Library Questions • 2 years ago

I am using TTSlib, but the main draw() loop seems to be paused while it is actually saying something. For instance, in the following demo, it stops outputting the millis()

Is there a simple way around this, or would the only solution be to have the call to TTSlib in a separate thread ( http://wiki.processing.org/w/Threading)?

import guru.ttslib.*;
TTS tts;
void setup() {
size(100,100);
tts = new TTS();
}
void draw() {
println(millis());
}
void mousePressed() {
tts.speak("Hi! I am a speaking Processing sketch");
}

Replies(1)

calsign

Re: TTSlib - speaking halts drawing

2 years ago

I have just discovered TTS and see great potential for it, but have encountered the same problem.
I have a feeling that Threading is the simple way, and I have created a simple class extending Thread:

class TextThread extends Thread {
String toSay;
TextThread(String say) {
toSay = say;
}
void start() {
super.start();
}
void run() {
}
void trigger() {
tts.speak(toSay);
}
void setSay(String say) {
toSay = say;
}
String getSay() {
return toSay;
}
}

I hope this helped

EDIT: This is, of course, assuming that you have created a TTS Object called tts and initialized it.