Question

I created an application that uses the TTS engine to send feedback to the user. With the aim to improve the performance, I used the synthesizeToFile and addSpeech methods, but strings of text to be synthesized are inside the strings.xml file, so I have to invoke these methods for each string that is spoken by the TTS engine.

Since the TTS engine uses only strings whose name begins with tts_, is it possible to easily iterate over all strings that begin with tts_ within the strings.xml file?

Answer 1

You can give them all (while defining) the resource name as "prefix"+(1..n). And in the code use,

int resid=<constant>;
for(i=1;resid!=0;i++){
        resid = this.getResources().getIdentifier("prefix"+i, "strings", this.getPackageName());
}