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Playing sound in didReceiveRemoteNotification, while in the background, using text to speech feature

What I am trying currently is to play a message when app receives remote notification while in the background (or likely woken up from a suspended state). The sound is not playing at all after the app is woken from a suspended mode. When application…
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Unable to copy asset attributes console error - AVSpeechSynthesizer

My console is getting spammed with these errors: [MobileAssetError:1] Unable to copy asset attributes Could not get attribute 'LocalURL': Error Domain=MobileAssetError Code=1 "Unable to copy asset attributes" UserInfo={NSDescription=Unable to…
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Text to Speech API (AVSpeechSynthesisVoice) broken in iOS 13 GM

Update I installed the iOS 13 GM on a different device, and did not encounter this issue. So I'm no longer sure if this is specific to the iOS 13 GM, or something about the way I installed it. On the first device (an iPhone X), I did an upgrade…
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SpeechSynthesizer doesn't give the natural pause for full-stop in Swift

I am working on a text to speak task. In which I am facing problem that if I got the text for example: Hello everyone. 2 minutes to go. Then using code below for speech synthesizer, It considers whole text as one sentence and doesn't give a natural…
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Does anyone know if AVSpeechUtterance supports SSML?

Was wondering if anyone knew if AVSpeechUtterance supports SSML?
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AVSpeechUtterance volume low while AVAudioSession in .playAndRecord

I have a use case where I've to play speech utterances and audio files in an ongoing video call. I'm using Agora for the video call. Issue:- The sound of speech utterance and audio file playing is very low Observations:- While in video call the…
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Different voices in Text to Speech iOS app

I have a Text to Speech App and all is good, but I was looking for a voice. In Settings/Accessibility/Voice Over/Speech/Voice there is a list of voices. I wanted to select one of those, for example "Susan (Enhanced)". How would I go about doing…
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Detect ongoing speech from AVSpeech and AVUtterance in Swift

I gather you can use a delegate method to tell when AV speech has finished extension MyViewController: AVSpeechSynthesizerDelegate { func speechSynthesizer(synthesizer: AVSpeechSynthesizer, didFinishSpeechUtterance utterance:…
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AVAudioSession issue when using SFSpeechRecognizer after AVSpeechUtterance

am trying to use SFSpeechRecognizer for speech to text, after speaking a welcome message to the user via AVSpeechUtterance. But randomly, the speech recognition does not start(after speaking the welcome message) and it throws the error message…
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AVSpeechSynthesizer iOS 15/16 lagging for seconds when switching to (different) German language voice

Whenever switching the AVSpeechSynthesizer voice to a (different) German voice the app waits/hangs for a few seconds (depending on device) before speech output starts. Looking into the console output I see that the German language rules data is five…
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AVSpeechUtterance: how to fetch a random array and use a specific voice?

While working at using Swift to spew forth quotations, I'm running into issues with the repetition of the same command. Here's what I have right now import AVFoundation import PlaygroundSupport PlaygroundPage.current.needsIndefiniteExecution =…
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Force custom pronunciation of words in AVSpeech and AVSpeechUtterance in Swift

For speaking out numbers with an AVSpeechUtterance, I would like Siri to speak numbers in ways that respect the convention for the type of number. For a date, I would like it to pronounce 1492 as fourteen ninety two rather then one thousand, four…
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AVSpeechUtterance en-US voice sounds garbled on iOS 12

I have an app that uses AVSpeechUtterance which has been working fine until iOS 12. It still works but the en-US voice sounds garbled. This doesnt happen on the xcode simulator or on the new iPhone XS Max. It seems to only happen on iPhone X. …
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AVSpeechSynthesizer and memory leaks in Xcode Instruments

Every time I use speech synthesizer, Instruments reports memory leaks. Hiding system libraries in the Call Tree section leaves no entries in the call tree display. I understand that the leaks are caused by some system call. Or am I missing…
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Swift - Reset/Restart SpeechSynthesizer after it finishes

I'm coding an app to read random study questions to students. The basic flow is: Generate random question Assign the text to a SpeechUtterrance Play the SpeechUtterance with the SpeechSynthesizer Get the student's answer Check it Generate a new…
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