How to stop the voice during text-to-speech synthesis? - ios

Question

I used the following code to initial the text to speech synthesis using a button. But sometimes users may want to stop the voice in the middle of the speech. May i know is there any code i can do that.
Thanks
Here is my code
#interface RMDemoStepViewController ()
#end
#implementation RMDemoStepViewController
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
//Add Border to TextBox
//Instantiate the object that will allow us to use text to speech
self.speechSynthesizer = [[AVSpeechSynthesizer alloc] init];
[self.speechSynthesizer setDelegate:self];
}
- (IBAction)speakButtonWasPressed:(id)sender{
[self speakText:[self.textView text]];
}
- (void)speakText:(NSString *)toBeSpoken{
AVSpeechUtterance *utt = [AVSpeechUtterance speechUtteranceWithString:toBeSpoken];
utt.rate = [self.speedSlider value];
[self.speechSynthesizer speakUtterance:utt];
}
- (IBAction)speechSpeedShouldChange:(id)sender
{
UISlider *slider = (UISlider *)sender;
NSInteger val = lround(slider.value);
NSLog(#"%#",[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%ld",(long)val]);
}
#end

Answer 1

But sometimes users may want to stop the voice in the middle of the speech.
To stop speech, send the speech synthesizer a -stopSpeakingAtBoundary: message:
[self.speechSynthesizer stopSpeakingAtBoundary:AVSpeechBoundaryImmediate];
Use AVSpeechBoundaryWord instead of AVSpeechBoundaryImmediate if you want the speech to continue to the end of the current word rather than stopping instantly.
You can also pause speech instead of stopping it altogether.

Answer 2

This will completely stop the SpeechSynthesizer: -stopSpeakingAtBoundary and if you want more code after the SS, then put : at the end of that. So basically, -stopSpeakingAtBoundary: For the full code to fit in with yours, here: [self.speechSynthesizer stopSpeakingAtBoundary:AVSpeechBoundaryImmediate];