Hi,
During an operation on my brain tumour they had to put a Tracheostomy in which prevents me from speaking ( and eating and drinking ).
I used to use a programme called Grid Player on the iPad ( yes I know - I didn't buy it - it was a gift ).
Basically half the screen was taken by the keyboard with a big "speak" button and half was a window showing what you had typed ( pic attached ).
I'm now looking for an equivalent for Android as I bought a Nexus 10. I have looked at a few and they all have pictures to click on which I don't really need. The closest so far has been Alexicom which at least accepts free text but the window is very small. Predictable looks like what I need but costs £100 !! I just need the window and a ( virtual !! ) keyboard.
Any suggestions?
How about
Talk - text to voice
on the play store?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ktix007.talk
Best wishes on your recovery.
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freshlysqueezed said:
How about
Talk - text to voice
on the play store?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ktix007.talk
Best wishes on your recovery.
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Also keep in mind that you can get extremely high quality text to speech voices that can be used alternatives to the default Google voice. I believe the best out there at bathe moment is Ivona Voice. With that installed, you will have a choice between a variety of voices and accents. Highly recommended.
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freshlysqueezed said:
How about
Talk - text to voice
on the play store?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ktix007.talk
Best wishes on your recovery.
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Thanks - I will try it out but initial looks seem promising so thanks for the suggestion...
Jon - actually I'm already using Ivona ( Amy UK ) and it is indeed better than the standard one - cheers!!
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These two are my fav on ipad2, flipboard for social news and planetary for visualuzing music collection.
Do screened some in android market, none I found good enough to ....
Any app you found good?
rainby said:
These two are my fav on ipad2, flipboard for social news and planetary for visualuzing music collection.
Do screened some in android market, none I found good enough to ....
Any app you found good?
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Whats social news ?
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Whats social news ?
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ah... it displays customerized news feed including updates from one's Facebook twitter etc in a very user-friendly 'magzine' way.
Pulse is sorta like flipboard
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schwiz said:
Pulse is sorta like flipboard
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You may want to check out Taptu for Honeycomb
See here: http://t.co/1tE0RmR
thanks for these suggestions.. will try ..my tab is still on the way.
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Feedly
Check out Feedly too.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.devhd.feedly&feature=search_result
I would highly recommend pulse. I use that app more than anything else and on the tablet the split screen is really nice.
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Try the following:
Feedly
Newsr
News360 (still in Beta but quickly getting better)
Pulse
My favorites are Feedly and Newsr currently. Several more are in beta stages.
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thanks for these suggestions. i tried news 360. its user interface is nice .... and reminds me of flipboard somehow. before any updates from above apps mentioned , ifeel news 360 acts more reasonable for 10.1.
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I love pulse. A preinstalled app that doesn't suck is great.
Pulse is okay, I hope flipboard comes to android.
It would be nice but I recently took a survey with News360 and they're currently working on Twitter/Facebook integration. It could possibly help me forget about Flipboard.
Man...if only I could code, I would have started working on an app just like Flipboard called Scrapbook. LoL. I wouldn't be surprised to see Flipboard appear on Android sometime after Christmas. I still wonder if Apple doesn't pay some of these developers not to work on both.
It seems silly as anybody who can program, can just take your idea, change it a bit and put in on another marketplace.
with that being said , flipboard to me ,also is far more better in providing iformation than any apps i tried on android os.
just by searching word 'cancer' , in these apps vs flipboard , one can clearly see the difference ....
hope flipboard coming to android soon ...
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It would be nice but I recently took a survey with News360 and they're currently working on Twitter/Facebook integration. It could possibly help me forget about Flipboard.
Man...if only I could code, I would have started working on an app just like Flipboard called Scrapbook. LoL. I wouldn't be surprised to see Flipboard appear on Android sometime after Christmas. I still wonder if Apple doesn't pay some of these developers not to work on both.
It seems silly as anybody who can program, can just take your idea, change it a bit and put in on another marketplace.
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the same, hope it will be available for android soon.
Another thing is that they need to make the content more customizable and give more consideration to the individual preference.
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Another thing is that they need to make the content more customizable and give more consideration to the individual preference.
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That is true.
Apart from the tremendous claim for their attractive layout, this is a real problem.
There is not enough personal customization of content, and most often, the status updates chronologically.
Ive never had the chance to play with it but having seen reviews, I would really like to use planetary on android.
I would pay 4.99 on the market for that
What do you mean there is no Flipboard-like app? Theres Google Currents which is superior
I was currently searching for planetary. Only thing i found , was this thread.
Can someone port it for android? Or am i asking something incredible?
I have flipboard installed on my tab. In the play store says isn't compatible but you can instal it if you download the apk from other source. Once installed the app says in the first time open that is not made for this screen size but works perfectly!
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Gesture Launcher
seriously, buy it and you will have a completely different experience on your phone. so convenient. amazingly intuitive.
it is basically a program that puts a tiny android on your screen permanently (you can choose the location so it is not an inconvenience) and when you want to access an app... while in a phone call, playing a game, at any point... you touch that icon and draw the gesture you have assigned to a specific app and it pulls it up instantly.
eat it iphone.
try it out guys, it's amazing
Will do once Google checkout stops declining my fing bank of America card!!! Lol
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Dolphin browser HD has this, but its used to access saved favorite pages. So I draw an S to go to the Star Wars : The old Republic site, and then I draw a P when i want to look at some pus....wait.
nice find, thanks.
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Dolphin browser HD has this, but its used to access saved favorite pages. So I draw an S to go to the Star Wars : The old Republic site, and then I draw a P when i want to look at some pus....wait.
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Hahaha, nice!
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Here is a quick and dirty app for launching the built-in camera app on the Fire HD. All it does is find the Intent for com.android.camera, and launch it.
DrHenley said:
Here is a quick and dirty app for launching the built-in camera app on the Fire HD. All it does is find the Intent for com.android.camera, and launch it.
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if you are rooted and using different laucher, you can gaing access to the camera that way to.
Thanks
P.s. can you make the icon hi-res please
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dank101 said:
Thanks
P.s. can you make the icon hi-res please
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Making a hi-res icon for the carousel turned out to be a much more difficult job than writing the app was. This one is just the stock camera icon and there is no hi resolution version that I could find.
But..I have done it, and I plan on making it available on Amazon's app store (for a nominal fee)
The version here will remain available for free - consider it a Beta.
nicee )
Thanks for the app.
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I have submitted the app with hires carousel icon to the Amazon App Store, and it is awaiting review.
The app name is "HD Camera" and it will be $1.99. Creating the hires icon and jumping through all of the hoops to satisfy Amazon took much much longer than simply writing the app.
Dr Henley please update when its live and I will buy it and review it for all your hard work. Thanks
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It's live, just search for Camera.
Version 2.0 has been submitted for review.
I take zero credit, and have not tried this yet (not rooted yet) but i see no reason it wont work. This will allow you to use google text to speech for maps, etc instead of the robotic, horrible Samsung voice. Please thank the op in the link!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46239078
I hate the Samsung voice crap. I use a app to read my messages when using my Bluetooth but I stopped because I couldn't switch it to Google. But soon I will.
Thanks.
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Followed these steps and it worked perfectly. Through the Samsung hub it asked me to download a HD voice and I did but it still sounds robotic. I'm glad I was able to switch it to Google's
Using googles now. Worked great thank you. I hate Samsung's.
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If - you restart after downloading It works fine
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Samsung English UK HD sounds better but it doesn't stick for US.
Hi...you like sing with karaoke medias ,listening to your favorite track along with lyrics or watching subtitled music-videos?it being enjoyable also could be great language training and self-learning facility for non-native English speakers like me.
the most easiest to use and more reachable than others is a lyric player that someone could have quick look at it at any short free time like city-in short trips by bus , metro etc .
plus getting its media (a text formatted file) is not supposed to be a drudgery, big money-costable and needs really low web surfing skills !
lack of such good Lyric player App for android is now clearly palpable.
i have spent to much time googling it for my desired lyric app, even searched at any kind of markets and forums seeking for a complete and at least bug-free one, now got just nothing!
alright android devices have to many lyric apps but IMO none functional.sorry for this.
This is a Request page for Lyric player app compatible all Android devices and all type media players!
read it then join me to find a gracious Developer to make one.i ll also look forward to your great ideas.
(if you agreed me hit the Thank then rate it to get our flag high!)
Features requested:
1.At least .Lrc and .txt files loadable.
2.Its supposed to be a standalone app.*
3. Built-in graphical UI Lrc creator(editor).
4. Management of sorted list of loaded and associated files.
5.Ability to get media directly from local storage or search and download from internet pages or reliable online DBs.
6.Customization for screen overlying text flow**
7.Play/pause, FF/ FR gesture and buttons for text flow control(to synch with song)
8.Notification Bar trigger and shake trigger: to start, while app is ready but minimized
9.i'm still thinking ...
*so preferred because of compatibility for all players or the app could be associated with any MP with user permission.
**standard options for text: number of line per page, text size ,font, margins and dynamically auto text highlighting... also for BG: transparent/solid color or a custom image... etc.
dear Dev. if you do this for us ,i promise will follow/like/circle/thank you till im alive ...
Good lucks!
No one will help.....
Are you in search of codes?
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aashukmehta said:
No one will help.....
Are you in search of codes?
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nope! i'm not skillful in codding programs, indeed im a noob but a good idea maker!
Hehe same here
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aashukmehta said:
Hehe same here
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Lets do it ourself .
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Have you started this project?