About SMS To Speech
This is an Android app that allows you to control three options regarding text messages when using this app:
Service Off: The app does nothing.
Service On: the service will detect incoming text messages and pop up a dialog that you can press up, down or the button on the screen to hear the message read aloud
Auto Play (Optional): This cuts out the middle man and read the text without user action, even if phone is asleep.
Enable Bluetooth (Optional): This is handy if you have a Bluetooth headset so that the audio will come through the headset and not the phone speakerphone. BUG: If you are connected to your car radio and not listening to Bluetooth you won't hear the audio. In this situation uncheck "Enable Bluetooth" (in this app) so that you can hear the text over the phone audio. This feature requires that you have a Bluetooth enabled device. However, if you don't or you are not connected to a Bluetooth connected device and this option is enabled all will work just fine (If not let me know).
I use as few permissions as necessary. If you see a permission and don't think it is necessary let me know, I'll test and try to remove it.
WARNING: DO NOT USE THIS APP WHILE DRIVING.
Currently it needs these permissions:
READ_CONTACTS: to get the contact name and read it to you before the SMS message.
RECEIVE_SMS: to check for incoming text messages.
READ_SMS: To read the message using text to speech.
Still here? You can find the source code for this app at my GitHub account:
https://github.com/knoxguru/AndroidTextToSpeech
Please, ignore any grammatical errors or typos and I hope you enjoy.
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SMS To Speech version 1.6 on your
Android device!
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Android package:
com.knoxguru.texttospeech, download SMS To Speech.apk
by X####:
Works perfectly! No more looking at the phone while driving...