Voice Notify
VoiceNotify is an Android app that uses Text-To-Speech through the Accessibility Service in Android 1.6+ to speak notification messages from the status bar when they appear, avoiding the need to turn on the screen to read the notification. It features a fully customizable spoken message and the option to select apps to ignore.
Price: Free!
Links
voicenotify.pilot51.com (forwards here)
Voice Notify in Android Market
Voice Notify on AppBrain
Changelog
Dates are in GMT.
v1.0.2 [2011-04-05]
- Fixed: Ignore All option creating duplicate ignores, requiring multiple touches to enable an app.
- Added: Option to donate through Paypal (opens Paypal donate page in external browser).
- Fixed: Repeating notifications (usually progress bars) spoken repeatedly.
- Added: Option to change TTS between notification and media audio streams. Solution to notification stream Bluetooth issue reported by SRadner.
- Fixed: App List jumping to top when selection changed. (rough/temporary workaround, list still jumps by up to one item)
v1.0.1 [2011-03-28]
- Fixed: Crash when custom TTS message contains an unsupported percent variable. [reported by SRadner]
- Changed: TTS runs on notification audio stream instead of media stream, also removed control of media volume while displayed.
- Added: App List menu options to ignore all or none.
v1.0.0 [2011-02-13]
- Initial release to the Android Market!
Started development on 2011-02-03
Future releases
Feature requests
Feature requests are given strong consideration and if accepted they are given higher priority than other features of similar importance.
This list also includes features that were already in the internal to-do list when they were suggested.
Versions for feature releases are only preliminary and may change.
| Suggestion | Suggested by | Through | Projected version | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Known Issues
| Issue | Affected Android platform/hardware | Affected versions | Expected fix version | Notes | Reported by | Through |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seriously screwing up phones | "DX" (Droid X?) is the only specific information I have about this issue | 1.0.0 | This appears to be a very rare issue if it's even legitimate. Please contact me if you have this issue! | mike and papa | Market comments | |
| App List jumps slightly (aligning with top of first visible item) when enabling/disabling an app | Not an SDK issue | 1.0.2 | 1.0.3 |