As you know the Text to Speech are those applications which will read out the text automatically and gives out the audio so that we can hear. Generally these softwares comes with choice on output voice, languages accent, ethnicity and sound. Smartphones with Android operating system comes with Text to Speech application which has various uses like it can be used while driving & read out the caller info, the message and other text alerts. In the similar way that can be used for entertainment purpose too.
On your Galaxy S II phone you can produce the output voice of a robot or chipmunk. This post will explain you on how to get the output voice as of Chipmunk or robot in text to speech converters on your lovable Android mobile phone.
Chipmunk or Robot Voice with Text-to-Speech on Android
Here is the settings on how you would enable them on your Galaxy S II phone, it might work on others phones too.
- From your phone tap on to Menu and then select Settings
- Then select the option of Voice Input and Output.
- Now select the option of Text to Speech Settings located under the voice output.
- Under that select Default engine.
- Now select SamsungTTS as your default engine and then select the speech rate of Samsung TTS in the next option.
- Now here comes the effect, since the speech rate of Chipmunks is faster you have to choose the settings accordingly. So under Voice effect select ‘Helium gas effect‘ and under speech rate you need to select ‘Very Fast‘ and then listen to example what you hear, it would be the voice of a Chipmunk.
Rohit Batra
October 8, 2011 at 11:45 am
Is this only for S2.. I tried it on Galaxy ACE it worked as the default speech engine in ACE is Pico.. but just how to get that Voice Effect menu, i only got the speech rate not the Voice Effect menu..
Yogesh Patel
October 8, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Yes, it just for Galaxy S2 phone.