Computer Engineering
Talking Twitter
by Hanly on Oct.10, 2009, under Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Sample Work
A week ago, for my mobile device programming class, I had to add text-to-speech and speech-to-text capabilities to a freely available Android program called Twitta. The features I added were very crudely superimposed on the Twitta interface, therefore this edit is by no means polished or intended for production usage.
There are 3 button “S”, “X”, and “R”. “S” starts the playback of all of the tweets which are currently displayed on the screen. Once the user scrolls down and new tweets appear on the screen the button can be pressed again and only the new ones will be read. “X” stops the playback of the messages. “R” prompts the user to speak their tweet. The google speech to text engine converts it to text and is displayed on the edit bar. If the message was wrong, pressing “R” again clears it and prompts for new speech. The message can also be edited with the keyboard. Below is a video of the application in action:
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