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Text to Speach Ring Tone Possible?

There seems to be lots of free and open source text to speach code out there: http://sig.levillage.org/?p=551
So, wouldnt it be cool to have your universal say 'Incoming call from <contact name>' instead of your usual ring tone? It gets right around the problem of having to open up the screen to see who is calling.
It would also be a great gimick for people with other phones too. Talking ring tones havent even been done by Nokia yet. 8)

RyanZA said:
There seems to be lots of free and open source text to speach code out there: http://sig.levillage.org/?p=551
So, wouldnt it be cool to have your universal say 'Incoming call from <contact name>' instead of your usual ring tone? It gets right around the problem of having to open up the screen to see who is calling.
It would also be a great gimick for people with other phones too. Talking ring tones havent even been done by Nokia yet. 8)
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Microsoft Voice Command do that and more...
If there is a program to read your incoming sms.....
Regards,
Arto.

Artosoft said:
Microsoft Voice Command do that and more...
If there is a program to read your incoming sms.....
Regards,
Arto.
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Wow, thanks.
Yeah, incoming SMS would be good. :wink:

RyanZA said:
Artosoft said:
Microsoft Voice Command do that and more...
If there is a program to read your incoming sms.....
Regards,
Arto.
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Wow, thanks.
Yeah, incoming SMS would be good. :wink:
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VIJAY...... WE NEED YOU!!!!
Regards,
Arto.

There is the Fonix range which can read your email, but I don't know whether it'd be able to read your SMSes too.
Not to be a stick-in-the-mud, but why would you want SMS-to-Speech?
"Dot Dot Dot Forwardslash dot dot dot Open Bracket dot dot dot", and that's just the first line of one of those cutesy smsses. Or the ones where each letter is converted into it's visual brother, but with umlauts and all the other diacritical marks (accents, breves, circumflexes, spiritus and hooks)? To the english speaking person, the letter "ß" looks like a funky "B", but in germanic, it's an 's" sound.
And "Ur th bst 1 n da wrld" (not a good example, but you get the idea) does not translate well if not heavily interpreted first.
It'd be a "neato" feature, which you'd uninstall after a day's usage.

Can Microsoft Voice Command read up a contacts name and tell me that?
.. Microsoft Voice Command is it worth buying?

Messed around with MS voice command a bit.. havent been using it much before because I dont need the features much over the built in thing. I tried turning on the announce incoming phone calls option, but its really soft. (Far too soft to hear). The normal ring tone plays for a second, then goes soft and I assume the voice command is trying to speak after that, but its too soft to hear, even with the phone next to my ear.

I agree, I love the Voice command function that tells you who's calling but yes it is way to quiet so I usually turn it off, it needs to be load and not trying to swap between the ringtone and voice command telling you the person who's calling. So yes a specific program to do this as a ring tone would be great.

Interesting thread. This is a great idea, but I have to say, MSVC does the job so well, it's probably not worth expanding beyond there. However, I'm looking into a general text to speech solution for PPC.
Our best bet is flite, which is a relatively large install and doesn't sound very good.
However, an easy way for you to start thinking about this is to check out the app WordBook. I think it installs a version of the Flite dll. You can copy text and get it to speak it straight back to you. The speech is quite poor quality, but it gives you an idea. Now I imagine you can access this externally, and so you can intercept SMS, calls etc and get it text to speeched.
However, since MSVC is installed in traditional SAPI form, it should also be externally accessible.
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Voice Command
I have just tried the demo of Voice Command on universal, but i couldnt get button on bluetooth headset to activate it. Also it would be nice if the caller name being read out would be good over the bluetooth headset.
Can and of the genius's on this site create such a programe. Or anyone know of any other programmes.
Using the phone in clam mode means you dont know whos calling, and as i use my bluetooth headset all the time, it would be nice to know whos calling.
Thanks in advance
Tim

timha: there are about 90 threads on the VC+Clam issue. Non successful, but helpful...
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vijay555 said:
Interesting thread. This is a great idea, but I have to say, MSVC does the job so well, it's probably not worth expanding beyond there.
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I dont know about that. Have you tried using the announce incoming calls option? On my universal, no matter what settings I try, its simply impossible to hear what VC is saying while the phone is ringing. So for me, VC definately doesnt seem to be doing the job very well at all.
Has anybody been able to get VC to properly announce the caller ID?

No VC is to quiet, so useless

Aaah, ok, I don't use my universal as a phone, and just remember it from the Magician, when it would announce calls. I think there's a thread around trying to resolve this issue though.
V

Voice Command has a known problem of being extremely quiet on the Universal.
Somewhere on this site there is a fix CAB file that ostensibly makes the volume higher. I hadn't found a major difference, but look for it and try.
The announce works best if you turn the ringtone off and use annouce only (make sure your normal volume - not ringing volume - is turned way up)

No good, its still very soft. Having the volume on full is also quite a hindrance, since you have to keep turning it up and down all the time. As they said back in November, we'r going to have to wait on an update to make voice command properly compatible with WM5. There doesnt seem to be any move by Microsoft to actually do this, though.
Strange that nobody has really used voice caller ID on the Universal before - it seems the obvious choice for a ring tone to me on a phone like this.

The hack for increasing sound - never tried it, but it involves, IIRC, changing the attentuation type in the notification settings.
V

Hi.
I only have Voice Commander. Is it different from MSVC? I keep looking for the announce incoming calls but couldnt find it. Voice Commander has been in my phone when I bought it so I just use what's available but it gives me so much headache. When I say "Call John", it gives me several names that dont even sound close to John. Grrr! I even put tags on the names individually but my VC is so deaf! Is it because of my bluetooth headset, VC or is it the phone's fault?
thanks

I've been using this for a couple of years now:
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/
Type your message, pick and voice and download the WAV
Nice and easy and works VERY well so check it out

RyanZA said:
There seems to be lots of free and open source text to speach code out there: http://sig.levillage.org/?p=551
So, wouldnt it be cool to have your universal say 'Incoming call from <contact name>' instead of your usual ring tone? It gets right around the problem of having to open up the screen to see who is calling.
It would also be a great gimick for people with other phones too. Talking ring tones havent even been done by Nokia yet. 8)
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aside from microsoft voice command; what i use is mortring...i'm sure you guys are familiar with this app...it allows you to assign ringtones and sms sounds to individuals in your contacts. using the xda's microphone, i made my own ringtones by recording either my voice or someone else's. example; i deal with a lot of raw material suppliers and i get calls all the time. when this guy working for a foundry calls me up; the sound i recorded goes "mr. johnson is calling". for others whom i've developed good relationships with, i asked if i could record their voice and use it as a ringtone....so if my supplier from an aluminum die caster calls my xda goes "hi robson, this is ch lim". sms' are easy since you can do the same and assign them for that particular contact. when i receive and sms, my xda goes "text message from ____". for the people who call me that are not in my contacts list; the default ringtone i've set sounds off. this is very convenient for me when i'm driving or the like, no need to look at the phone and simply activate the bluetooth headset.
you don't really have to go and search the net for ringtones all the time; you can use the xda's recorder to actually make them. the format output is in .wav file. for text to speech for sms, i agree that would be a very interesting feature...flite is a good app...perhaps vijay can link up something for sms? but then that would probably violate the license thingee for flite...
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Windows Mobile: exotic software needed

Hello,
Need following software that I could not find:
1. Call conversation recorder (tried Resco won't work properly - almost impossible to hear the person you are talking with, I suppose it uses microphone to record, isn't there any internal way to do it?)
2. ****list software to block calls and messages from unwanted numbers.
My machine is HTC Touch Cruise, Windows Mobile 6.0 Pro
Much obliged in advance for any clues.

Oooooh exotic! Haha.
Use "Call Firewall" (search google) for blocking calls. For recording calls you are most likely out of luck on Pocket PC. Haven't seen a good one come across the forum yet. Anyone care to prove me wrong?

You can use the notes function built in to WM6 and record it from there... Bad quality but does the job...

juiceppc said:
Oooooh exotic! Haha.
Use "Call Firewall" (search google) for blocking calls. For recording calls you are most likely out of luck on Pocket PC. Haven't seen a good one come across the forum yet. Anyone care to prove me wrong?
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Well it's most upseting then for the phone like that. I suppose many consider it business phone, and businessmen should be most interested in recording their calls :|

l3v5y said:
You can use the notes function built in to WM6 and record it from there... Bad quality but does the job...
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I know that, you gotta push and hold that damn button all the time and that is not that easy and most uncomfortable :|

in the US some states is illegal to record phone calls and other voice recordings unless you get consent from the other party. maybe that's why they didnt put it into the phone. may be some legal issues they didnt wanna deal it and be liable for.

No... During a call, you can press the notes button within the phone app and then hit record in there. I'll post some screen shots if you want...

I live in Europe, Lithuania, so it doesn't concern me whatsoever
NguyenHuu said:
in the US some states is illegal to record phone calls and other voice recordings unless you get consent from the other party. maybe that's why they didnt put it into the phone. may be some legal issues they didnt wanna deal it and be liable for.
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Very uncomfortable I should say, I was looking for much more automatized software, at least Resco adds date, number and some other info I suppose. And by the way does it work if you're talking with bluetooth headset on? I guess not...
l3v5y said:
No... During a call, you can press the notes button within the phone app and then hit record in there. I'll post some screen shots if you want...
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I doubt it...

Resco Audio Recorder automatically records phone calls (I remember because I didn't know it was on, so I filled up my storage with phone recordings).
However, it is quiet because on most WinMo hardware, you can't record incoming voice. It's quiet because it's recording from the mic (where you talk into), which I guess picks up a bit of sound from the speaker (where you listen when you talk). Maybe try talking on speakerphone all the time? Haha, I'm sure that won't work in a business setting, but it's something.

can "Call Firewall" block messages (SMS) as well? I guess not. And that is even more important for me. Anyone knows software with this function?
juiceppc said:
Oooooh exotic! Haha.
Use "Call Firewall" (search google) for blocking calls. For recording calls you are most likely out of luck on Pocket PC. Haven't seen a good one come across the forum yet. Anyone care to prove me wrong?
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There is a program i have tested on wm6 it's called LivePVR if you PM me i can give you a link

Try PMRecorder. It's fully automatic, and it's supposed to be working quite well.

Hi,
Vito audioNotes does a very good job on this. Good quality sound and small files.
Cheers,
Dirk

megaphone (voice amplifier) software for WM

hi,
does anyone know software for windows mobile devices that make it act like a megaphone. or would this be easy to make ? input = magnified output or something ?
does not sound that hard.
but i have been looking on google and searched on several ppc software sites.
w/o any promising results.
its just for fun.
and dont say: 'BUY AN MEGAPHONE' pls
Thanks in Advance.
Jack.

I'm certain that you can yell louder than the maximum output level of the speaker on the phone. At any level, that may even be remotely close to louder than you could yell, there will be so much distortion from the device that it would be nothing more than noise.
Now if you had asked about a voice changing app. That may be fun if it could even be activated while on calls.
That is till you answer your phone with the female voice when your wife calls.

you got a point there about the maximum lvl of the speaker. lol
and i dont realy think those voice chaning app's work that good.
they come with my creative sound card.
some voices are changed quite good. others are not
thx anyway. you made this topic useless

Don't even think of it. At the very least the microphone will sense the amplified output and there will be a fading echo. In the worst case echo will be amplified up to the point where all you hear is a painfully loud high-frequency tone.

stepw said:
Don't even think of it. At the very least the microphone will sense the amplified output and there will be a fading echo. In the worst case echo will be amplified up to the point where all you hear is a painfully loud high-frequency tone.
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I love feedback!
Surely the speaker on the device isn't loud enough to make a difference?

what kind of topic,,,,hahahaha
you can yell louder than the speaker.....hahaha
...but the voice changing app will be a lot of fun

Is there voice changers for PPC?
adempozhari said:
what kind of topic,,,,hahahaha
you can yell louder than the speaker.....hahaha
...but the voice changing app will be a lot of fun
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Is there any good working voice changing apps for wm5/6 guys?

shiranmotha said:
Is there any good working voice changing apps for wm5/6 guys?
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Apparently this is impossible, because they don't allow access to the mic... I think... I don't think they wanted people to write programs to record coversations...

Why is it impossible? I have a voice recorder on my touch.....

pkoper said:
Why is it impossible? I have a voice recorder on my touch.....
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true, you can have a recorder, but altering it would be difficult- lets remember you might not want to be using a voice changer all the time..a recorder records sounds but doesnt alter it

JokeZony0u said:
true, you can have a recorder, but altering it would be difficult- lets remember you might not want to be using a voice changer all the time..a recorder records sounds but doesnt alter it
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yes you right but at least someone have to make an app wich record the voice and play it in altering mode...

adempozhari said:
yes you right but at least someone have to make an app wich record the voice and play it in altering mode...
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Yes, and there are recorders like RESCO recorder which records while in a conversation too... There are several crazy apps like call cheater (adds a background sound) and many more that I used in my symbian N70, but on WM6 I found nothing...

shiranmotha said:
Yes, and there are recorders like RESCO recorder which records while in a conversation too... There are several crazy apps like call cheater (adds a background sound) and many more that I used in my symbian N70, but on WM6 I found nothing...
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HA!! I loved call cheater on my Nokia.. Can't count the number of times I left work late and used the traffic jam background as I called the wife at 90+ MPH. "Yea stuck in traffic again."

Well, the HTC phones(or manufactured for other carriers) ain't supporting the in-line audio function ( which is a hardware feature), due to which I suppose you can't play background sound during call. Because of this the answering machine functionality doesn't work, which you find in the nokia's symbian based phones. Some phone of Gigabyte has this functionality & I hope in near future HTC looks into implementing it.
If you want answering machine functionality on ppc then you can try iSecretary 4.5. But remember it will route the audio through the loudspeaker, which might annoy you sometimes.

shiranmotha said:
Yes, and there are recorders like RESCO recorder which records while in a conversation too... There are several crazy apps like call cheater (adds a background sound) and many more that I used in my symbian N70, but on WM6 I found nothing...
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the windows mobile standard have that app. as conversations recorder are hundreds but I use PMRECORDER and it will be fun have such a app to add a background sounds to a conversations

its not as stupid as you might think
megaphones can be pretty loud, but for the most part are no louder than a human voice, the point of a megaphone is to talk into it and your voice amplified so you can shout without straining your voice.
obviously a phone speaker wont match your standard megaphone speaker but you should be able to amplifiy your voice with your phone.
not really practical but it is doable.

Heykrop said:
HA!! I loved call cheater on my Nokia.. Can't count the number of times I left work late and used the traffic jam background as I called the wife at 90+ MPH. "Yea stuck in traffic again."
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ahahhahaahahahhhhahaaaahahaa

Voice scrambler 'd be nice just to speak silently into the PDAs' mic and the voice would come loud and scrambled from the speaker (i need that for my mafia job )

I think there was something like this for the nGage.
Try to google that-maybe they did something similar for our ppc's!?

I would actually like such a program, but I wouldn't use it with the phone's speaker, I'd use it when connected to a speaker system. Say your at your party and you want to speak to everyone without yelling your lungs out, you simply plug your speaker system into the the phone, and everyone will be able to hear you. I know the Iphone has an app like this, so there has to be someone with WM coding skill to write a program like this. It's a simple concept: get audio data from the microphone and immediately give output through the headphone jack.

Skype Sound output switch

I have made a program for my girlfriend wizard so she can talk with skype using the earpiece instead of the loudspeaker...
It might be useful for others too, use it at your own risk, I do not take responsibilities for any damage made by this program...
It also may work with other phones, it is a matter of trying... of course again, at your own risk.
It is very simple, just run the program before a skype call and then bring it up and press "ok" to close.
If someone knows tha if skype broadcast some sort of message while making a call, please send the information to me so I can make a auto-switching program ;-)
Do not let the program running because you can really mess things around, but nothing serious... just annoying.
standalone exe file, do not sell it!!! it is free!!
Thanks.
Check the new program, at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=469223

Thanks man, I don't need it at the moment, but it is great idea.

this is a fix that a lot of ppl have been waiting for but unfortunately it doesn't work on my tytn 2. is there any way that you can make a universal switch or one for the tytn 2?

can someone use this fix to auto-switch when wm6 voip call is comming in?

This is brilliant, brilliant!!!!
I suggest you repost this as VOIP: Audio redirection to earpierce and hopefully the mods can make this a sticky. This is a problem that has baffled many for long.
I've tested with both Express Talk and WM6 VOIP. However WM6 VOIP has got an issue on my phone where the volume is low with lots of noise. However in both cases,the app redirected the audio to the earpiece. Express talk is crystal clear through the earpiece and is what I'll be using for VOIP calls.
Would you care to elaborate on what issues we can expect if we leave the application running for long?

one small problem is after running this .exe, i am unable to key lock my device. so as i speak over the earpiece of skype i have the tendancy to press buttons (eg. hangup) with my face.

pmugabi said:
Would you care to elaborate on what issues we can expect if we leave the application running for long?
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pmugabi:
you wont hear your phone ring at all if you leave the device running. all the sounds and notifications that come through the loudspeaker will all now come through the earpiece!

would vibrate still work?
To answer my own question, I tested it and it does! (Well I tested it on my Tilt and it worked)
My own problem now is finding a ROM that works with Skype and Troca2. The one I have now will not use the mic on the phone (whether troca2 is running or not). Either way I am making progress towards my Skype only wizard!

SKYPE and FRING on Sony Xperia X1
Have you managed to make this software automatic??
It may be a good idea if the software would work for FRING and SKYPE only without redirecting ALL the sounds.
Is it possible??
Best
Michael

I am having a issue with audio not coming out as mono on MP3 files will this work for that?

hello,
could you please make this run on WM2003 also ? i need this for my HTC magician.
thank you in advance...

MarceloFB said:
I have made a program for my girlfriend wizard so she can talk with skype using the earpiece instead of the loudspeaker...
It might be useful for others too, use it at your own risk, I do not take responsibilities for any damage made by this program...
It also may work with other phones, it is a matter of trying... of course again, at your own risk.
It is very simple, just run the program before a skype call and then bring it up and press "ok" to close.
If someone knows tha if skype broadcast some sort of message while making a call, please send the information to me so I can make a auto-switching program ;-)
Do not let the program running because you can really mess things around, but nothing serious... just annoying.
standalone exe file, do not sell it!!! it is free!!
Thanks.
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Thanks for your great share!!!!

Does it work on X1?

I think WM2003 is too old to run

Code ... maybe?
Hi MarceloFB,
This works great on my Xperia X1 (didn't try it with Skype, just my own VOIP app). ... Also have not tried it on my TytnII, don't even think I'm going to bother, since the TytnII hardware (as far as I know) won't support it.
I would, however, love to just put the API call into my own VOIP app instead of having the extra executable.
I have tried:
waveOutMessage( hWaveOut, /*MM_WOM_FORCESPEAKER*/WM_USER + 2, FALSE, 0 );
... as I thought that was the way to redirect the sound on devices where the hardware supports it, but that does not seem to work.
Would you maybe be willing to let me know what API calls you make in your app?
Regards
Hendrik

Hi ...
.... Nevermind ... got it working .... and on TytnII as well

Perfect
Works fine with Fring, Thanks, any idea why Skype 2.5 Beta crashes on Xperia when trying to make a call?

Works on Hermes
I've been testing express talk: http://www.nch.com.au/talk/index.html and your app reroutes the audio perfectly.
Where do I send beer? I would love a today plugin.

[email protected] said:
Hi ...
.... Nevermind ... got it working .... and on TytnII as well
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Is it possible to guide us how you changed your API to make it automatic ?
I don't know why nobody continued this thread. It is a big problem for all of WM users .
I have WM 6.1 and still the same problem . Damn Microsoft cannot fix this issue ?

Take a look at the first post, I have made a new program with automatic switch, and need people to test it and give some feedback, I intend to make corrections as bugs appears.

Voice Dialling

Really happy with the Hero but can't live without voice dialling for driving. Anyone got a good solution?

Yeah, I'd really be interested in this too, as I am so used to Voice Command on my former Touch HD.

paranoid2007 said:
Yeah, I'd really be interested in this too, as I am so used to Voice Command on my former Touch HD.
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Me too! would love something like voice command on my Hero.

there is a voice control in teh market, but it seems to only work properly if you speak v...e...r....y slowly, or in a southern US drawl.
scarlett o'hara would have no problem, but it doesn't seem to like my London/Dorset abomination of an English accent!

The app I think you are referring to is call TopVoiceControl which also allows you to activate other settings/open apps using your voice....
When you are installing it the app requires a TTS Service to be installed (well it did on my G2) You can set this TTS service to a UK English setting.
That said..... it seems to be very hit and miss and you do have to pronounce your words correctly.... not ideal...
Having seen the adverts for the iPhone 3GS with Voice activation I'd like to know if it is indeed as good as the ad or if it works when you are rattling along in your car?
It would be nice to see some further development in this area.
I'm new to Android but I believe that the G1 had a voice dialer which has since disappeared on 'Cupcake'. Can any one shed any light on this? Did it work?

MagnumPI said:
Having seen the adverts for the iPhone 3GS with Voice activation I'd like to know if it is indeed as good as the ad or if it works when you are rattling along in your car?
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No idea about in a car but certainly in a quieter environment two different people with the 3gs have both told me it dosnt just retry / fail most of the time to recognise the spoken contact name, instead it just picks a random contact to call instead.

I wanna know too if there's a solution because I wanna use bluetooth headset dialing.

Perhaps the feature will be restored via a custom rom soon.

Dragging up a slightly old topic I know... but isn't there even voice tagging on the Hero?