Which laguages does FreeTTS Supported.

Question

Hi all !
I want use FreeTTS for my application. I can use the code bellow to read the Hello World in English.
How can i read another language for example German or French,...
My code here :
Can anybody help me ?
package com.myprj.demo;
//Decompiled by DJ v3.7.7.81 Copyright 2004 Atanas Neshkov Date: 5/16/2009 1:26:02 PM
//Home Page : http://members.fortunecity.com/neshkov/dj.html - Check often for new version!
//Decompiler options: packimports(3)
//Source File Name: HelloWorld.java
import java.io.File;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.util.Locale;
import javax.speech.Central;
import javax.speech.EngineList;
import javax.speech.synthesis.*;
public class HelloWorld
public HelloWorld()
private static String noSynthesizerMessage()
String message = "No synthesizer created. This may be the result of any\nnumber of problems. It's typically due to a missing\n\"speech.properties\" file that should be at either of\nthese locations: \n\n";
message = message + "user.home : " + System.getProperty("user.home") + "\n";
message = message + "java.home/lib: " + System.getProperty("java.home") + File.separator + "lib\n\n" + "Another cause of this problem might be corrupt or missing\n" + "voice jar files in the freetts lib directory. This problem\n" + "also sometimes arises when the freetts.jar file is corrupt\n" + "or missing. Sorry about that. Please check for these\n" + "various conditions and then try again.\n";
return message;
public static void listAllVoices(String modeName)
System.out.println();
System.out.println("All " + modeName + " Mode JSAPI Synthesizers and Voices:");
SynthesizerModeDesc required = new SynthesizerModeDesc(null, modeName, Locale.US, null, null);
EngineList engineList = Central.availableSynthesizers(required);
for(int i = 0; i < engineList.size(); i++)
SynthesizerModeDesc desc = (SynthesizerModeDesc)engineList.get(i);
System.out.println(" " + desc.getEngineName() + " (mode=" + desc.getModeName() + ", locale=" + desc.getLocale() + "):");
Voice voices[] = desc.getVoices();
for(int j = 0; j < voices.length; j++)
System.out.println(" " + voices[j].getName());
public static void main(String args[])
listAllVoices("general");
String voiceName = args.length <= 0 ? "kevin16" : args[0];
System.out.println();
System.out.println("Using voice: " + voiceName);
try
SynthesizerModeDesc desc = new SynthesizerModeDesc(null, "general", Locale.US, null, null);
Synthesizer synthesizer = Central.createSynthesizer(desc);
if(synthesizer == null)
System.err.println(noSynthesizerMessage());
System.exit(1);
synthesizer.allocate();
synthesizer.resume();
desc = (SynthesizerModeDesc)synthesizer.getEngineModeDesc();
Voice voices[] = desc.getVoices();
Voice voice = null;
int i = 0;
do
if(i >= voices.length)
break;
if(voices.getName().equals(voiceName))
voice = voices[i];
break;
i++;
} while(true);
if(voice == null)
System.err.println("Synthesizer does not have a voice named " + voiceName + ".");
System.exit(1);
synthesizer.getSynthesizerProperties().setVoice(voice);
synthesizer.speakPlainText("Hello World!", null);
synthesizer.waitEngineState(0x10000L);
synthesizer.deallocate();
System.exit(0);
catch(Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
Best regards!

Answer 1

Hi all !
I want use FreeTTS for my application. I can use the code bellow to read the Hello World in English.
How can i read another language for example German or French,...
My code here :
Can anybody help me ?
package com.myprj.demo;
//Decompiled by DJ v3.7.7.81 Copyright 2004 Atanas Neshkov Date: 5/16/2009 1:26:02 PM
//Home Page : http://members.fortunecity.com/neshkov/dj.html - Check often for new version!
//Decompiler options: packimports(3)
//Source File Name: HelloWorld.java
import java.io.File;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.util.Locale;
import javax.speech.Central;
import javax.speech.EngineList;
import javax.speech.synthesis.*;
public class HelloWorld
public HelloWorld()
private static String noSynthesizerMessage()
String message = "No synthesizer created. This may be the result of any\nnumber of problems. It's typically due to a missing\n\"speech.properties\" file that should be at either of\nthese locations: \n\n";
message = message + "user.home : " + System.getProperty("user.home") + "\n";
message = message + "java.home/lib: " + System.getProperty("java.home") + File.separator + "lib\n\n" + "Another cause of this problem might be corrupt or missing\n" + "voice jar files in the freetts lib directory. This problem\n" + "also sometimes arises when the freetts.jar file is corrupt\n" + "or missing. Sorry about that. Please check for these\n" + "various conditions and then try again.\n";
return message;
public static void listAllVoices(String modeName)
System.out.println();
System.out.println("All " + modeName + " Mode JSAPI Synthesizers and Voices:");
SynthesizerModeDesc required = new SynthesizerModeDesc(null, modeName, Locale.US, null, null);
EngineList engineList = Central.availableSynthesizers(required);
for(int i = 0; i < engineList.size(); i++)
SynthesizerModeDesc desc = (SynthesizerModeDesc)engineList.get(i);
System.out.println(" " + desc.getEngineName() + " (mode=" + desc.getModeName() + ", locale=" + desc.getLocale() + "):");
Voice voices[] = desc.getVoices();
for(int j = 0; j < voices.length; j++)
System.out.println(" " + voices[j].getName());
public static void main(String args[])
listAllVoices("general");
String voiceName = args.length <= 0 ? "kevin16" : args[0];
System.out.println();
System.out.println("Using voice: " + voiceName);
try
SynthesizerModeDesc desc = new SynthesizerModeDesc(null, "general", Locale.US, null, null);
Synthesizer synthesizer = Central.createSynthesizer(desc);
if(synthesizer == null)
System.err.println(noSynthesizerMessage());
System.exit(1);
synthesizer.allocate();
synthesizer.resume();
desc = (SynthesizerModeDesc)synthesizer.getEngineModeDesc();
Voice voices[] = desc.getVoices();
Voice voice = null;
int i = 0;
do
if(i >= voices.length)
break;
if(voices.getName().equals(voiceName))
voice = voices[i];
break;
i++;
} while(true);
if(voice == null)
System.err.println("Synthesizer does not have a voice named " + voiceName + ".");
System.exit(1);
synthesizer.getSynthesizerProperties().setVoice(voice);
synthesizer.speakPlainText("Hello World!", null);
synthesizer.waitEngineState(0x10000L);
synthesizer.deallocate();
System.exit(0);
catch(Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
Best regards!