Text to speech functionality in Test Automation

Step 1:

Download  java speech synthesis called FreeTTS.

https://freetts.sourceforge.io/docs/index.php#download_and_install

If you plan on just creating applications with FreeTTS, the bin package will be sufficient

Download the zip folder go to lib install jsapi.exe. It will create a jar file namely jsapi.jar . Include all jar libraries to your project.

Step 2:  

Copy past the extricted file into the following folder

C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_151\lib\ext

Step 3:

Define the rule for JRE library

Note: Add “javafx/**”  in Rule Pattern as shown below 

Step 4: Write the following code in eclipse

package automation; // your package name

import javax.swing.JLabel;

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import java.awt.*;

import java.awt.event.*;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import javax.swing.*;

// importing for text to speech

import java.util.Locale;

import javax.speech.Central;

import javax.speech.synthesis.Synthesizer;

import javax.speech.synthesis.SynthesizerModeDesc;

public class TTS implements ActionListener {

// Skipping  adding the container, Apply layouts, create & add components etc

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {

try

{

// set property as Kevin Dictionary

System.setProperty(“freetts.voices”,

“com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.cmu_us_kal.KevinVoiceDirectory”);

// Register Engine

Central.registerEngineCentral

(“com.sun.speech.freetts.jsapi.FreeTTSEngineCentral”);

// Create a Synthesizer

Synthesizer synthesizer =

Central.createSynthesizer(new SynthesizerModeDesc(Locale.US));

//Allocate synthesizer

synthesizer.allocate();

// Resume Synthesizer

synthesizer.resume();

// speaks the given text until queue is empty.

synthesizer.speakPlainText(“Completing the add new hire process for an employee so wait”, null);

synthesizer.waitEngineState(Synthesizer.QUEUE_EMPTY);

// Deallocate the Synthesizer at the end of program or at termination of program

//synthesizer.deallocate();

}

catch (Exception e)

{

e.printStackTrace();

}

}

// Main method

public static void main(String[] args) {

new TTS();

}

} // End of class