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Text to speech, ‘Hello world!’ in Android (Perl)
3 lines of code. Import the Android.pm google extension, create the android object and you can use the ASE API methods:

use Android;
my $droid = Android->new();
my $result = $droid->speak(‘Hello, Perl!’);

For text2speech ASE support you need to install this:

http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/wiki/InstallingTextToSpeech

For all methods available over the $droid object, bluetooth, call, camera, volume, contacts, dial, dialog(UI), clipboard, input related methods (UI), geocode, volume, password (UI), packages, screen, launch, makeToast (UI), map, notify, read, sensors related methods, speech methods, scanBarcode, schedule, sendEmail, sms, speak, audio recording, vibrate, open URLs, webSearch(string), etc… see documentation at:

http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/wiki/ApiReference

If you want to know what is between your and the API, see at:

http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/source/browse/perl/src/Cross/Android.pm

To start playing with Perl in your Android mobile device or emulator, follow the white rabit:

http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/source/browse/perl/COMPILING

http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/