Are you interested in making your application speak? Converting text to speech within your application is fairly simple with the help of a few libraries. Let’s take a look at what is required to get FreeTTS and MBROLA working within your Java application. Continue reading “Java Text to Speech – the basics”
Making noise
Now that we have a small collection of voices to choose from, see our previous article, let us turn our attention to making some noise from our Java application.
Just to get us going we will select a voice and use it to play a quote. The quote we will use for now is “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” The voice we will use is the 8-bit Kevin. Continue reading “Making noise”
Adding MBROLA speech to FreeTTS Java speech synthesiser
Welcome to the third in the series on adding speech to a Java application. In the previous post, we wrote a small application to list out all the voices available in our Java FreeTTS speech synthesiser.
In this article, we will take a look at increasing the number of voices available to us by adding voices from MBROLA. Continue reading “Adding MBROLA speech to FreeTTS Java speech synthesiser”
JavaFX and adding basic speech
In the last post we took a look at a small application to demonstrate making our program speak and the various voices and settings that can be used to alter the sound.
In this post, we are going to build a small proof of concept project to load the FreeTTS synthesiser and start to use it. Continue reading “JavaFX and adding basic speech”
JavaFX Text to Speech
Have you ever wondered how to make your application talk? Well, in this tutorial we take a look at a JavaFX application built to sample some voices. The application uses freely available tools such as FreeTTS and MBROLA to add speech into an application. Continue reading “JavaFX Text to Speech”
Making your program speak
I was working on a project the other day and it had a requirement for speech. Based on some pre-agreed text, the application needed to play back the text to the user. Now, these days this sort of thing is common place. Alexa and Siri are well known services based on this sort of technology.
So, what if you want to convert text to speech how can you do this.
So You Want to Write a Java Desktop Application
When starting out programming there are so many things that you need to learn. The problem is made worse by the fact there are so many things you do not know you need to know. Added to this is a multitude of things that you think you need to know that you try to learn.
So You Want to Write a Java Desktop Application was written for just such a situation. This book takes you step by step through the process of building a Java application with JavaFX. The aim of the book is to build an application starting with a basic description, understanding the application design, and working through each section fully. All the code is provided so the reader can build as they read. By the end of the book, you will have a working application, as well as a good understanding of how to design and build your own applications.
JavaFX Alert information box demo
JavaFX provides a number of Alert dialog box templates to solve a range of requirements. Here we look at two of the options namely the information template and blank template. Continue reading “JavaFX Alert information box demo”
Roles in Software Development
There are many terms used within the software industry to describe roles that people perform. All of these roles contribute in some shape or form to produce and deliver software to a target audience.
Many of the terms used are arbitrarily assigned by organisations as they suit, and do not necessarily conform to any agreed to and understood definition. In fact, if you were to look these terms up in an attempt to define each you will find a varying array of explanations. Continue reading “Roles in Software Development”
What is a Good Developer?
I come across many articles that discuss what makes a good developer:
• What is a good developer?
• How to become a good developer?
• Things you must know to be a good developer? Continue reading “What is a Good Developer?”