Trouble with QtSpeech (again)

quentinthornton

Hey guys, I recently installed qtspeech (thanks to sgaist), and now I'm having problems again. I start by making a qt widgets application with all the defaults selected, and when I put these simple lines:

 QTextToSpeech voice;
 voice.say("Hello World");

in the constructor for mainwindow.cpp it didn't work. But when I put it in the main.cpp, it worked. I looked in the hello test and all it did, to say something, was this:

QTextToSpeech * voice;//it even has this code in the mainwindow.cpp, and it doesn't have a problem working.
voice->say("Hello World");

So I also tried that too, but it didn't work at all, even in the main.cpp. When I try to put that code in the mainwindow.cpp, it comes up with a window saying QtSpeechTest.exe stopped working. Am I doing anything wrong? If so, how could I fix it? Thanks.

P.S. I've also tried making a speak function that looks like this:

void MainWindow::saySomething(QString stringToSay){
      QTextToSpeech voice;
      voice.say(stringToSay);
}

and I made a button that was suppose to call that function and say, "hello world" when I released the button, but that didn't work either.

SGaist

Hi,

QTextToSpeech * voice; //<< That's just declaring a pointer
voice->say("Hello World");

You are not allocating any object of type QTextToSpeech hence the crash.

void MainWindow::saySomething(QString stringToSay){
      QTextToSpeech voice;
      voice.say(stringToSay);  // << say isn't necessarily synchronous
}

In this case, voice will get destroyed at the end of the function which might happen before the TTS engine got a change to run hence the silence.

quentinthornton

Thanks! I changed it like so and now it works!:

    QTextToSpeech * tts = new QTextToSpeech(this);
    tts->say("hello world");

SGaist

If you do that in saySomething then you have a memory leak.

Make tts a member of your class and be done with it.