!636 (modern)

// speech libraries!

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import javax.speech.*;

import javax.speech.synthesis.*;

main {

  psvm {

    speech("Hello Java X!");

  }

  public static void speech(String text) {

    if (text == null || text.trim().isEmpty()) return;

    String voiceName = "kevin16";

    try {

      System.setProperty("FreeTTSSynthEngineCentral", "com.sun.speech.freetts.jsapi.FreeTTSEngineCentral");

      System.setProperty("freetts.voices", "com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.cmu_us_kal.KevinVoiceDirectory");

      Central.registerEngineCentral("com.sun.speech.freetts.jsapi.FreeTTSEngineCentral");

      SynthesizerModeDesc desc = new SynthesizerModeDesc(null, "general", Locale.US, null, null);

      Synthesizer synth = Central.createSynthesizer(desc);

      synth.allocate();

      desc = (SynthesizerModeDesc) synth.getEngineModeDesc();

      Voice[] voices = desc.getVoices();

      Voice voice = null;

      for (Voice entry : voices) {

          if(entry.getName().equals(voiceName)) {

              voice = entry;

              break;

          }

      }

      synth.getSynthesizerProperties().setVoice(voice);

      synth.resume();

      synth.speakPlainText(text, null);

      synth.waitEngineState(Synthesizer.QUEUE_EMPTY);

      synth.deallocate();

    } catch(Exception ex) {

      String message = " missing speech.properties in " + System.getProperty("user.home") + "\n";

      System.out.println("" + ex);

      System.out.println(message);

      ex.printStackTrace();

  }

  }

}