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Caller Announcement TTS #258

Closed roundi closed 5 years ago

roundi commented 6 years ago

Hello, Great and useful app, thanks Is it possible to hear the caller name using TTS ? Cheers, Ronald

jroal commented 6 years ago

I thought this was already an Android feature. Look at your Android accessibility features to find the caller ID readout. Although now I can't seem to find it.

roundi commented 6 years ago

Thank for your feedback. This feature was removed on later Samsung phone like s7 , it would be great to have. Txs

jroal commented 6 years ago

Yeah, I can't find it on my Motorola either. I agree this would be a good feature. Actually I think you can use the dialer notification with my apps notification reader. I will test this.

roundi commented 6 years ago

I found a function to speak the caller name, may be this will help : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22552965/how-can-i-speak-a-callers-name-when-the-phone-is-ringing I am not familiar with android coding, I wish I could help more.

jroal commented 5 years ago

I was able to set up the notification reader (just configuration of current app) to respond to the phone. I found 2 issues with this approach: today the message reader only sees "incoming call"; and it does not read messages while the phone is ringing. However, after the call stops ringing A2DP Volume will read out who tried to call. I know this is less useful as you want to know who was calling to decide if you want to answer. I don't think I will be able to solve the problem of not being able to read out messages while the phone is ringing though. More investigation is needed here....

jroal commented 5 years ago

For what its worth, I found where to set this up on Motorola phones. Its in the Moto app -> Moto Voice -> Talk to me -> announce incoming calls and text when driving is detected.

Here is another option: https://www.guidingtech.com/35350/make-android-announce-caller-name/

and another: https://www.wikihow.com/Get-Audible-Caller-ID-on-Android

I think I will leave this out of scope of this app since many solutions already exist and I am trying to reduce my maintenance burden on this app..