Is it possible to cancel a call to speakTextAsync? - text-to-speech

Question

I'm using the javascript SDK of Microsoft Speech Synthesizer and calling speakTextAsync to convert text to speech.
This works perfectly, but sometimes the text is long and I want to be able to cancel in the middle, but I cannot find any way to do this. The documentation doesn't seem to indicate any way to cancel. The name speakTextAsync suggests that it returns a Task that could be cancelled, but in fact the method returns undefined, and I can't find any other way to do this. How can this be done?

Answer 1

Seems there is no way to stop it when it is speaking. But actually,as a workaround, you can just download the audio file and play the file yourself so that you can control everything. try the code below:
import com.microsoft.cognitiveservices.speech.*;
import com.microsoft.cognitiveservices.speech.audio.AudioConfig;
import java.nio.file.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.sound.sampled.*;
public class TextToSpeech {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
String speechSubscriptionKey = "key";
String serviceRegion = "location";
String audioTempPath = "d://test.wav"; //temp file location
SpeechConfig config = SpeechConfig.fromSubscription(speechSubscriptionKey, serviceRegion);
AudioConfig streamConfig = AudioConfig.fromWavFileOutput(audioTempPath);
SpeechSynthesizer synth = new SpeechSynthesizer(config, streamConfig);
String filePath = "....//test2.txt"; // .txt file for test with long text
Path path = Paths.get(filePath);
String text = Files.readString(path);
synth.SpeakText(text);
Thread thread = new Thread(new Speaker(audioTempPath));
thread.start();
System.out.println("play audio for 8s...");
Thread.sleep(8000);
System.out.println("stop play audio");
thread.stop();
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("Unexpected exception: " + ex);
assert (false);
System.exit(1);
}
}
}
class Speaker implements Runnable {
private String path;
public String getText(String path) {
return this.path;
}
public Speaker(String path) {
this.path = path;
}
public void run() {
try {
File file = new File(path);
AudioInputStream stream;
AudioFormat format;
DataLine.Info info;
Clip clip;
stream = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(file);
format = stream.getFormat();
info = new DataLine.Info(Clip.class, format);
clip = (Clip) AudioSystem.getLine(info);
clip.open(stream);
clip.start();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}