Text To Speech is not working in CountDownTimer

Hey all, so I'm trying to run Text-to-speech once one of my timers is at 10 seconds. However, it isn't saying anything when the timer reaches 10 seconds.

package com.android.countdown;


import java.util.Locale;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.CountDownTimer;
import android.view.View;
import android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;

public class countdown extends Activity implements TextToSpeech.OnInitListener{
    CountDownTimer Counter1;
    CountDownTimer Counter2;
    CountDownTimer Counter3;
    int Interval = 1;
    TextToSpeech tts;

    public String formatTime(long millis) {
          String output = "0:00";
          long seconds = millis / 1000;
          long minutes = seconds / 60;

          seconds = seconds % 60;
          minutes = minutes % 60;


          String secondsD = String.valueOf(seconds);
          String minutesD = String.valueOf(minutes);

          if (seconds < 10)
            secondsD = "0" + seconds;
          if (minutes < 10)
            minutesD = "0" + minutes;

          output = minutesD + " : " + secondsD;
          return output;
        }

      @Override
        public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.main);




//Declare Start/Stop timer
    Button btnstart = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnstart);
    Button btnstop = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnstop);

//Text field to show time left
    final TextView mCounter1TextField=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.counter1);
    final TextView mCounter2TextField = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.counter2);
    final TextView mCou开发者_JS百科nter3TextField=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.counter3);


//Counter 1
Counter1 = new CountDownTimer(20000 , Interval) {

public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished){
    mCounter1TextField.setText("Seconds remaining: " + formatTime(millisUntilFinished));
    if (millisUntilFinished == 10000) {
        countdown1speech();
    }


}

public void onFinish() {
    Counter1.start();  
}
};



}

      public void countdown1speech() {
            tts = new TextToSpeech(this, this);
            tts.setLanguage(Locale.US);
            tts.speak("You have 10 seconds remaining", TextToSpeech.QUEUE_ADD, null);

        }

    @Override
    public void onInit(int status) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onDestroy() {
        // Don't forget to shutdown!
        if (tts != null) {
            tts.stop();
            tts.shutdown();
        }

        super.onDestroy();
    }


}

My onTick() is nested inside an object instantiation for my countdown timer. So I'm not able to put my

tts = new TextToSpeech(this, this);
tts.setLanguage(Locale.US);
tts.speak("You have 10 seconds remaining", TextToSpeech.QUEUE_ADD, null);

in there without getting an error..But I'm not sure why the speech isn't working.

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You need to initialize TTS within your activities onCreate() or onResume() method. See also How to wait for TextToSpeech initialization on Android

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Well, I can't see how your timer even starts in the first place. You don't start it until you've finished! You have:

public void onFinish() {
    Counter1.start();  
}

The .start(); should be after the closing brace of the instantiation of the CountDownTimer

It would help a lot if you formatted your code properly and got rid of the redundant stuff like the buttons