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I found for certain languages the sound files from google translate sound by far most real (compared to other TTS engines availlable for Android).
Is the google translate app using a TTS engine?
Is there a way to play these TTS from a android app?
Here is a link to a TechCrunch article on using the unofficial Google TTS API [http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/14/the-unofficial-google-text-to-speech-api/]. You pass in the text in a RESTful API and it returns you an MP3. So if you can make an HTTP request from your Android application and play the MP3 that is returned you could use the Google TTS engine. The downside is that it is “unofficial” so it could be changed or removed without warning. There are probably other services available like this that are supported. But you will need an Internet connection and have to deal with latency issues with this approach, which may or may not be an issue depending on the application.