I submitted 3 applications, all of which are based on (what I hope is) a creative use of TTS. Talking Calendar (Productivity/Tools) - Talking Calendar integrates with your Android/Google calendar and reads aloud the corresponding event(s) at the specified time(s). Me and several people I know find it useful, especially in the car. TweetsAloud (Social Networking) - TweetsAloud is an application for Twitter that audibly alerts the user about new tweets and their creator, and has an option to read them aloud. It periodically checks for updates at user-defined intervals (10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes). It can read messages from friends, mentions, and direct messages. Voice Caller ID (Productivity/Tools) - Voice Caller ID integrates with Android/Google contacts and reads aloud the caller's information- name if displayed on the screen and the phone number otherwise (blocked calls are read aloud as "Unknown").
Creating TweetsAloud was very interesting, trying to get around the informal speech used in 140 character tweets. We ended up creating a dictionary to “inflate” common twitter terms into their regular speech equivalent. The dictionary will probably needed to be expanded in the future (I hate deadlines). I hope the voice quality of Google's TTS engine improves as time goes forward, as that has been people's main complaint. Our website is at www.pwnwithyourphone.com Good luck everyone! On Sep 1, 9:41 am, Lout <[email protected]> wrote: > While you developers relax... would you mind sharing what apps to > expect through this challenge.. and anything else you wish to share > about ADC2 submissions... well anything including the fact: 'thank > God, no more sleep less nights'! > > Am collecting information about the challenge (ADC2) for a news > article as am with cnet (and AP). Pitch your app if you have already > published or would soon publish on the market too. > > Your app name and description, web link if any, experience with > ADC2, ... anything would be useful for our article(s). > > And do you feel that there would have been more submissions than in > ADC1? > Is the competition going to be tougher or less profound as you were > allowed to put up apps not published before 1st Aug only? > > Do you think that all apps that didn't try for ADC1 should have had a > chance? > > Congratulations on your submissions while you wait for the next > phase. > Thanks, > Lout Reilly > ps: Moderators we request you to let this through so that you too get > some feedback. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
