starting text to speech engine from a service?
<p>i have a service from where i am trying to start a TextToSpeech engine ,but it seems that it's not working , so is it possible to start tts from a service?</p>

<p>here's what i've tried:</p>

<pre><code>package com.example.TextSpeaker;

import java.util.Locale;
import android.app.Service;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.IBinder;
 import android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech;
import android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech.OnInitListener;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.Toast;


 public class SpeakerService extends Service implements OnInitListener{

   public static TextToSpeech mtts;
  @Override
   public IBinder onBind(Intent arg0) {
 // TODO Auto-generated method stub
  return null;
  }

@Override
 public void onCreate(){
Log.d("SpeakerService","Service created successfully!");
mtts = new TextToSpeech(this,this);
mtts.setLanguage(Locale.ENGLISH);


}
@Override
public void onStart(Intent intent,int startid)
  {
Log.d("SpeakerService","Service started successfully!");
 Log.d("SpeakerService","Service started successfully!");
  Log.d("SpeakerService","tspker.mtts = " + TextSpeaker.mtts.toString());
 mtts = new TextToSpeech(this,this);
   mtts.setLanguage(Locale.ENGLISH);
   mtts.speak(Receiver.str, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH,null);
}
 @Override
 public void onDestroy(){
 if(mtts!=null)
  {
     mtts.stop();
  Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"The service has been destroyed!", T  oast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

}

 @Override
  public void onInit(int arg0) {
   // TODO Auto-generated method stub

 }

}
</code></pre>
