How to Do Long Text-to-Speech (Multithread TTS?)

[FTC15324]

Hi,

Our team is working on a fun tech demo project (does not need to be fully compliant with FTC rules). We want to have the robot give a short speech to the audience.

We have TTS working fine, but the safety mechanism that assumes the loop has failed if it takes more than a couple of seconds kicks in when we say more than one short sentence.

Is there a way to spin TTS off into a second thread? Or, is there a best practice for making a robot talk for 30+ seconds with a Rev hub and the FTC Robot Controller software?

Thanks in advance.

[4634 Programmer]

TTS is async by default, so I'm not sure why your call to speak() is blocking?

[Tom Eng]

Can you share a copy of your code?