I have finally got voices working on Igo primo but TTS is not working how can I rectify this ? I have the voices installed but when I press them nothing happens. Also I have svox and UK voice but nothing shows in primo on the device? I am using Samsung galaxy S3

This has been discussed on the forum before, I think you had to add a line in the info.ini within the voice telling iGO it was an Android voice.

Do a search, the search on the mobile site isn't very good so I can't find it at the moment...

marcy99 wrote:I have finally got voices working on Igo primo but TTS is not working how can I rectify this ? I have the voices installed but when I press them nothing happens. Also I have svox and UK voice but nothing shows in primo on the device? I am using Samsung galaxy S3

To have a TTS Voice on Android, go to Google Market and download for free IVONA TTS and the Ivona Voice for English.
Set the default TTS voice into your device the English TTS voice.
Start the iGO Primo Android and select the English TTS Voice.


Should work!

I wonder if anyone reading might be able to help.

I have Loquendo installed on my Tablet which is running Android 4.1.2 and have a problem setting it as the default TTS in my settings.

After installing it, Loquendo shows up in the 'Settings/Language & Speech/Text to Speech' along with the default 'Pico TTS'.
Th Pico is set as the Preferred Engine' but when I tap on Loquendo TTS it does not change.

Can anyone advise on what might be the issue.

TIA

How did you install it?

You may have installed the main engine but no voice data, see if there's a settings/download voice data option.

I downloaded a pack which included the install apk and all the voice files.
These were all put into a directory on the Internal memory (not root as I have no root access) from where the apk was run.
Loquendo then appeared as a setting option.
The directory has a host of sub-directories containing what appears to be voice files - eg

5756575757585759

The settings looks like this

5760

but as I say, selecting Loquendo has no effect

Was there any instructions about where to place the voice data?

It could be in the wrong place.

Fatboyfun wrote:Was there any instructions about where to place the voice data?

It could be in the wrong place.

This is the content of the Instructions.txt

Instructions
How to install:

1. Copy into /mnt/sdcard/LoquendoTTS folder, the Loquendo voices for TTS.
2. Install ver. 1, 2 or 3 depending on the needed languages.
3. Configure in Android Language settings for tts:

And that's where the folder was placed

I would double check the location by using an on-board file explorer (like es or astro etc)

Failing that, is it compatible with your os?

Fatboyfun wrote:I would double check the location by using an on-board file explorer (like es or astro etc)

Failing that, is it compatible with your os?

It is in the correct place
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It should be compatible with Android 4.1.2

Maybe I should try to find another copy/version somewhere and

Do you have a /storage/sdcard0 folder?

On my SGS2 with 4.1.2 the mnt/sdcard folder is a symlink, the sdcard is mounted at /storage/sdcard0

Although you can put stuff there, apps may not find it.

When I look in the File Explorer I have both mnt/sdcard and /storage/sdcard0, and both show identical content (ie all the folders/files in one also appear in the other in file explorer) - so I thought that they are the same thing and that the system should see the content whichever of those it is looking at.

Move the loquendotts folder to /storage/sdcard0

An android app can query the system as to where 'sdcard' is, the app uses this file object to find 'sdcard' so it can perform read/write operations as needed.

The symlink /mnt/sdcard is present for older apps that have the sdcard path hard-coded.

So the loquendo app is looking up the sdcard the correct way and looking at /storage/sdcard0, but what it's looking for is at /mnt/sdcard.

It would work if the app was looking at /mnt/sdcard and the data was at /storage/sdcard0 but not the other way around.

Fatboyfun wrote:Move the loquendotts folder to /storage/sdcard0

That is where it was installed when I extracted the package.

However I deleted it all from the Tablet and re-installed to that location again and unfortunately Loquendo is still not selectable.

I have decided to try a different TTS engine as a test to try and determine whether it is the location of the files or something else causing the issue with Loquendo.

As the files are rather large and my connection is a bit slow at present (one disadvantage of living in a rural area) I will leave it downloading overnight and try it in the morning.

UPDATE:

The plot now thickens.

I have now installed a different TTS from the Play Store - Ivona - and once again, although this installs without a problem and shows up in the settings, I still cannot change from Pico to either this or Loquendo.

When installing there were no options for setting the location etc, so it appears that the problem is not the TTS, but the Tablet.

Is there another setting I need to address, or is it possible that the Manufacturer has somehow blocked changes in the OS (although I can't imagine why they would do that).