Using Siri's voice to speak in your app

It’s really easy to use Apple’s Speech mechanism to make your app read text out loud to the users:

import AVFoundation

final class TextSpeaker {
    func speak(_ text: String, language: String = "en-US") {
        // Create an instance of AVSpeechSynthesizer.
        let speechSynthesizer = AVSpeechSynthesizer()
        // Create an instance of AVSpeechUtterance and pass in a String to be spoken.
        let speechUtterance: AVSpeechUtterance = AVSpeechUtterance(string: text)
        // Specify the voice. It is explicitly set to English here.
        // But it will use the device default if not specified.
        speechUtterance.voice = AVSpeechSynthesisVoice(language: language)
        // Pass in the utterance to the synthesizer to actually speak.
        speechSynthesizer.speak(speechUtterance)
    }
}

Just adding that 4-lines of code method is enough 🚀.

Then for usage:

TextSpeaker().speak("This was really easy")

If you want to have that method as a separate library you can add this lightweight SPM package to your apps.

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Tags: iOS