Android speech - how can you read text in Android?

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Published on 2009-07-21T18:25:57Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 12:45 UTC
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How can you read data, i.e. convert simple text strings to voice (speech) in Android?

Is there an API where I can do something like this:

TextToVoice speaker = new TextToVoice();
speaker.Speak("Hello World");

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