import android.app.Activity;

import android.speech.tts.*;

sbool androidSay_keepEngine = false;

// locale = language, e.g. Locale.GERMAN

static void androidSay(final S text, final Locale locale) {

  if (androidSay_keepEngine) {

    androidSay_keepEngine(text, locale);

    ret;

  }

  final new Flag flag;

  final TextToSpeech[] tts = new TextToSpeech[1];

  tts[0] = new TextToSpeech(androidContext(), new TextToSpeech.OnInitListener() {

    public void onInit(int status) {

      try {

        if (status != TextToSpeech.SUCCESS)

          fail("Speech engine initialization failed");

        int result = tts[0].setLanguage(locale);

        if (result == TextToSpeech.LANG_MISSING_DATA

          || result == TextToSpeech.LANG_NOT_SUPPORTED)

          fail("Language is not supported");

        result = tts[0].setOnUtteranceProgressListener(new UtteranceProgressListener() {

          public void onDone(String utteranceId) {

            print("TTS done");

            tts[0].shutdown();

            flag.raise();

          }

          public void onError(String utteranceId) {

            print("TTS error");

            tts[0].shutdown();

            flag.raise();

          }

          public void onStart(String utteranceId) {

          }

        });

        if (result != TextToSpeech.SUCCESS)

          print("Could not set listener");

        print(text);

        new HashMap params;

        params.put(TextToSpeech.Engine.KEY_PARAM_UTTERANCE_ID, randomID(8));

        tts[0].speak(text, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, params);

      } catch (Throwable e) { e.printStackTrace(); flag.raise(); }

    }

  });

  flag.waitUntilUp();

}