Android, Speak Failed: Tts Engine Connection Not Fully Set Up

I'm trying to get my TextToSpeech working, but I got a 'speak failed: TTS engine connection not fully set up', but got in green : Connected to ComponentInfo{...GoogleTTSService}. I

Solution 1:

The question is old, but I had a similar problem recently. In my case, the first sentence passed to the speak method was never spoken and LogCat is showing this warning.

I deal with it by placing the TextToSpeech object as static and created a staticsetup method. Works as a singleton design pattern. I'm calling this method on the first onCreate of my app. It's working fine 'til now. See below.

publicclassSpeakerManager {

    privatestatic TextToSpeech speaker;

    publicstaticvoidsetup() {
        if(speaker == null) {
            speaker = newTextToSpeech(MyAppUtils.getApplicationContext(), newTextToSpeech.OnInitListener() {
                @OverridepublicvoidonInit(int status) {
                    if (status == TextToSpeech.SUCCESS)
                        speaker.setLanguage(Locale.getDefault());
                }
            });
        }
    }

    publicstaticvoidspeak(String toBeSpoken) {
        speaker.speak(toBeSpoken, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, null, "0000000");
    }

    publicstaticvoidpause() {
        speaker.stop();
        speaker.shutdown();
    }
}

This MyAppUtils comes from this question.

Any improvement will be welcome.

I hope it helps someone.

Solution 2:

It seems the method onInit is never executed due to the call to the AsyncTask code. I moved the connect call in the onInit() method instead of the onCreate() and it now works.

Hope it will help someone.