import javax.speech.*;
import javax.speech.synthesis.*;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.net.URL;
import java.io.*;

public class Speaker{
   public static void main(String args[]) {
     try {
        Synthesizer synth = Central.createSynthesizer(
                      new SynthesizerModeDesc(Locale.ENGLISH));
        synth.allocate();
        synth.resume();

        try{
           String data = load( args[0] );
           System.err.println("Try JSML file.");
           synth.speak(data, null);                       //<---
        } catch( Exception e1 ){
           try{
              String data = load( args[0] );
              System.err.println("Try XML file.");
              synth.speak(                               //<---
                 "<jsml>"
                 + data.replaceFirst("<[?]xml.*[?]>", "")
                 + "</jsml>", null);
           } catch( Exception e2 ){
              try{
                 String data = load( args[0] );
                 System.err.println("Try text file.");
                 synth.speakPlainText(data, null);       //<---
              } catch( Exception e3 ){
                 System.err.println("Try argument.");
                 synth.speakPlainText(args[0], null);    //<---
        }  }  }

        synth.waitEngineState(Synthesizer.QUEUE_EMPTY);
        synth.deallocate();
     } catch( Exception e4 ){
        System.err.println("--- Error --- " );
   } }
   static String load( String file ) throws Exception {
     String data = "", s;
     FileReader fr  = new FileReader( file );
     BufferedReader myIn = new BufferedReader( fr );
     while( (s=myIn.readLine()) != null ){ data += s; }
     return data;
}  }