Add text-to-speech audio in your tests to control voice-activated features

With so many apps now being directed by voice commands (Siri, Alexa), it's important to have this capability in your automated tests.

But it also needs to be able to direct an application using many languages: English, Spanish, Mandarin, etc.

The Automate It! Test Automation Framework gives you the ability to do that and more:

• Text to speech conversion
• Playback in the audio of your computer or testing device
• Handle different accents and dialects
• Supports translation and speech to most other languages

It is incredibly simple to do, and there is an example in the framework. 

Here are the steps:

1. Download the code here: https://github.com/SWAutoTester/automateit
2. Open a command-prompt terminal window, change directory to the root directory where you downloaded the framework
3. type "ant example_texttospeech"

You will hear the following audio played on your computer: "Hello and Welcome to the Automate It Test Automation Framework" in both native english (no accent) and english-MX (english spoken with mexican/spanish accent), and native spanish (mexican accent).

It's really easy. Let's take a look at some code.

package org.automateit.example.test;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import org.automateit.test.TestBase;

import org.automateit.media.JarvisTextToSpeechConverter;
import org.automateit.media.TextToSpeechConverter;
import org.automateit.media.JLayerAudioPlayer;
import org.automateit.media.AudioPlayer;

/**
 * This class shows an example of how to use the AutomateIt! framework
 * for testing a text-to-speech application.
 * 
 * @author mburnside
 */
public class TextToSpeechTests extends TestBase {
    
    /**
     * The text to speech converter used in this test
     */
    protected TextToSpeechConverter textToSpeechConverter = new JarvisTextToSpeechConverter();
    
    /**
     * The audio player used in this test
     */
    protected AudioPlayer audioPlayer = new JLayerAudioPlayer();
   
    /**
     * Read in a text that has a Welcome message and play the audio on the computer
     *
     * @throws Exception 
     */
    @Test(description = "Read in a text Hello There and play the audio on the computer", groups = { "example_texttospeech" })
    public void test_A_Convert_Text_To_Speech_Welcome_Message_English() throws Exception {
      
        try { audioPlayer.play(textToSpeechConverter.execute("Hello and welcome to the Automate It Test Automation Framework")); }
        catch(Exception e) { throw e; }
    
    }
    
    /**
     * Read in a text that has a Welcome message and play the audio on the computer
     *
     * @throws Exception 
     */
    @Test(description = "Read in a text Hello There and play the audio on the computer - Spanish accent", groups = { "example_texttospeech" })
    public void test_B_Convert_Text_To_Speech_Welcome_Message_Spanish_Accent() throws Exception {
      
        try { audioPlayer.play(textToSpeechConverter.execute("Hello and welcome to the Automate It Test Automation Framework", "es-MX")); }
        catch(Exception e) { throw e; }
    
    }
    
    /**
     * Read in a text that has a Welcome message and play the audio on the computer
     *
     * @throws Exception 
     */
    @Test(description = "Read in a text Hello There and play the audio on the computer - native spanish language", groups = { "example_texttospeech" })
    public void test_C_Convert_Text_To_Speech_Welcome_Message_Spanish() throws Exception {
      
        try { audioPlayer.play(textToSpeechConverter.execute("Hola, tu estas bueno tambien?", "es-MX")); }
        catch(Exception e) { throw e; }
    
    }
    
}

And that's it! Very simple, easy and fast.

In this example, it shows a demonstration of how easy text-to-speech conversion is using the framework and also the added flexibility of supporting:

1. Many langauges
2. Many languages with regional accents

Try it out and have fun adding it to your automated tests.