Android: speech recognition does not work when using Espeak-ng as the default text to speech engine

[hozosch]

when using espeak as the default text to speech engine on android, speech recognition does not work. By that, I mean when I, for example, want to dictate something using the Gboard Keyboard.

1. Open an application with a text field, such as a messenger App like WhatsApp, to type a message.
2. Hit "Voice input" or whatever it's called in English. I only know the German labels.
3. You will hear that the tone indicating that voice input has started keeps replaying, meaning that it starts over and over. This does not happen with other speech synthesizers like google tts and also shouldn't be the case for Espeak-ng. I hope there is a fix for it.

[beqabeqa473]

Please elaborate which screenreader are you using?

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On 1/28/24, hozosch ***@***.***> wrote: when using espeak as the default text to speech engine on android, speech recognition does not work. By that, I mean when I, for example, want to dictate something using the Gboard Keyboard. 1. Open an application with a text field, such as a messenger App like WhatsApp, to type a voice message. 2. Hit "Voice input" or whatever it's called in English. I only know the German labels. 3. You will hear that the tone indicating that voice input has started keeps replaying, meaning that it starts over and over. this does not happen with other speech synthesizers like google tts and also shouldn't be the case for Espeak-ng. I hope there is a fix for it. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #1861 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Message ID: ***@***.***>

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[hozosch]

My preferred screen reader of choice is Talk Back, which is therefore what I'm using.

[beqabeqa473]

Ok, thanks, i understand. I asked, because nowadays people are experiencing problems with voice input with jieshuo.

[hozosch]

Oh, that's interesting. I wondered if the situation may have been different with commentary, since it seems to be better in some ways compared to Talk Back. I still continue hanging on to Talk back for now though. It works well on my Xiaomi a2.

[hozosch]

One of my friends can also reproduce it on his google pixel. So this is not something specific to a certain phone or Android version.

[alex19EP]

yep I reproduced this using tb on pixel 8 pro.

@beqabeqa473 I think this has something to do with the fact that we either use old apis to output sound to Android or somehow close the stream incorrectly.

If you can look at this problem, I will be grateful.

[beqabeqa473]

I am not sure if there are newer technics to output sound in terms of speech synthesis. that's stange thing. I will try to look at it at weekends.

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On 1/29/24, Alexander Epaneshnikov ***@***.***> wrote: yep I reproduced this using tb on pixel 8 pro. @beqabeqa473 I think this has something to do with the fact that we either use old apis to output sound to Android or somehow close the stream incorrectly. If you can look at this problem, I will be grateful. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #1861 (comment) You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Message ID: ***@***.***>

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