Does anyone have any idea software or otherwise to make Android to do this...
- Intercept an outgoing bluetooth phone call (IE someone dialed "*123" over bluetooth)
- Keep the BT audio channel OPEN, but do NOT dial the call
- Run Google Voice Search and direct audio input / output to that instead
The reason is I am trying to figure out a way to have my Android phone controllable via voice from my car kit (Chrysler UConnect), which is being "too smart" and has no idea to simply send a Bluetooth "action button" to Android. My idea is if I can write a little app that does the above, then I can simply save this "magic number" to my contacts and have it voice dialed
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I just got a new car (Nissan Altima) with bluetooth. I have a 8125 with Molski's 2.26 Rom and MS VCommand 1.6
I got it to pair on the first shot. What I can't seem to do is to control Voice Command using the car button. Let me explain...
If I dial someone from contacts or using speed dial from the phone it uses the car system.
If I push the phone button on the steering wheel it prompts me to use the car system to dial a number.
If I push the button on the phone assigned to voice command it wants me to speak into the phone give instructions.
What I am trying to do is be able to push the button preferably on the steering wheel, but if no on the phone and be able to use the car system to tell the phone to do, as if the car were a headset.
Any ideas how to make this work? all the searches I found on the topic seemed to reference workarounds to get VC 1.5 to do bluetooth.
Thanks!
Car Kit Compatibility
Not all car kits support routing audio through bluetooth outside of a call. BMW kits are notorious for this. They assume that you would only ever want to use the car system to initiate an interaction and so they don't route the audio to the device. This makes it impossible on some car kits to use Voice Command or any other speech recognition software that is running on a mobile device. Some car kits do support this, i.e. Parrot car kits.
Thanks for the leads. It is not a "kit" per se, but part of the tech package that came with the car. Any ideas on how I can determine what "kit" Nissan is using and whether there is a way to enable it to route the audio to the phone?
I have just brought an add on for my car head unit to enable bluetooth handsfree operation. It has the options for displaying text messages and some other features but they are all greyed out and only normal phone calls can be done.
Also the phone display turns on when you receive a call and so if its in your pocket you can press the screen by mistake.
Has anyone else used features like text alerts or with windows mobile devices or know any way to get these extra features working with car hands free kits.
I cant find anything much on the net so hope someone can help!
Bluetooth Profiles
The only thing I can think of is that a Bluetooth profile that supports the functionality you require is not enabled.
Check Profiles under Bluetooth settings and try enabling some of the unchecked profiles.
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I have not been able to find a thread about voice controlling the actual bluetooth as opposed to bluetooth dialling. I was looking for an app which could fix it for me if I forget to turn on my bluetooth before driving away. I found multiple apps such as Jeannie which offer voice control over everything else, but the snag with bluetooth (the only thing I genuinely need voice control over!) is that while it succeeds in recognising that I want to turn on Bluetooth, up pops a box saying that an app wants to activate my bluetooth, allow it to do so, yes or no. Not very voice controlled if I have to press a button to confirm that I want my phone to carry out the instruction given by voice command.
Is there a way to get rid of this pop-up for authorised apps, or some other way to activate Bluetooth without touching the phone screen that would not require rooting? I can't be messing around trying to press the correct part of the screen when I'm flying along at 60mph, but I can't risk missing calls because the Bluetooth is not enabled.
Hello all!!
I've been having a hard time with this, and looking to see if this is possible with the combination I am using.
I am having trouble getting SMS to read through TTS on android 2.3.6. The phone is the MB860 Atrix 4g.
Issue: I have an Alpine head unit in my car that does HSP and A2DP. Everything works great. I can stream through A2DP from all programs. I can send phone calls through the radio or as they come in. I can even voice dial through it by accessing Voice Commands or Vlingo.
1. What I am dying to do is find the right program or combination of programs to allow the radio to see an incoming text message (using TTS) as a PHONE CALL and allow it to interrupt CD's and Tuner mode also. This is already possible through the A2DP profile for streaming music through the radio (obviously, internal to the phone)
I currently use Handcent for texting (does TTS through A2DP).
I also sparingly use Vlingo for in car mode (Does NOT play well with Handcent, If it did....my problem would be 90% solved)
Vlingo must see notifications from the stock messaging app in order to start reading the messages. (Why handcent doesnt play well will vlingo)
I just found A2DP Volume, which SUPPOSEDLY allows handcent support and allows you to choose which audio stream to put the TTS on.
I couldnt get ANY of the streams to work. (I do have PICO turned on. that was my first mistake)
In reality, overall, I would like to have Vlingo in In Car mode, to read txt to me from safe reader. I would like to respond by voice using vlingo to send the message back (This works)
2. Could I use Tasker to switch messaging apps whenever bluetooth is active.
3. The over all situation: vlingo doesnt get notifications from Handcent (which i COULD stop using handcent just for that) but i MUSTalso be in BT audio mode on the radio inorder to hear my texts read aloud.... I WOULD like to have it interrupt other modes by "faking" a phone call
This is alot to chew on.....but thanks to anyone who spends the time to read it and offer advice!!!
Tom
Hey,
I am having trouble with my Pioneer CD-BTB200 Bluetooth Adapter, which is a common problem, according to the very few available threads on the internet.
This also didn't work with any other Smartphone before i.e. Samsung S3 or Blackberry Bold 9700.
Cliffnotes:
-pairing, media streaming (different source) and receiving and making calls works great! No issues there
-transfering the contact list results in a big mess, I have to dig in there if I can figure it out or if I just transfer one contact after another....
-now for the problem.......I installed Cyberon Voice Commander because it gives me the best behaviour and voice recognition since I am a native German speaker. Google, Dragon and AIVC don't work really well. But it doesn't matter which voice assist app I use, because it is the Bluetooth adapters fault. The Nexus 5 is rooted and runs stock Kernel with KitKat 4.4.2.
When I press the voice dial button on my Pioneer AVH-P5000DVD deck it activates the Cyberon Voice Commander app (or whichever is set as default). so far so good, that is what I want.
But! the dialog between me and the phone is almost impossible because the output volume over the car speakers is way to low. I have to literally pick up the phone and look at it's display to see what the voice commanding app is doing because you have to wait until it is finished asking what I want to do. (just holding a phone is illegal in Germany)
Assuming the app understood me right and starts dialing everything turns to be fine from that point because the volume of the actual call is perfect!
When the phone talks back to me I have to crank the volume all the way up to understand it a little bit and then turn it back down fast before the phone call starts or it'll blow the speakers out....since my car is quite loud when on temperature I don't think I will understand anything when I am driving.
I heard that the app TASKER could be programmed to raise the Bluetooth volume at a certain point and then lower it again. I checked but it only goes up to 15, which I already have set before with the stock volume slider. Additionally I have no idea how to configure Tasker to (maybe) get rid of the problem.
Has anyone ever heard of a similar problem and / or has an idea how to handle it?
Again, it's only the voice command prompts that are way to quiet when I start the voice dialing function via Bluetooth, everything else is fine.
Fixed the issue with SoundAbout!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodslink.android.wiredheadphoneroutingfix&hl=de
Now the voice prompts play loud and clear over the car speakers! Every other volume managing app failed miserably!
I used the latest Beta Version btw, going to buy the Pro Version soon.
http://soundabout.userboard.net/f8-download-beta-versions
I did very little changes to the settings, if anyone is interested I can hook you up with some screenshots
sutobe said:
Fixed the issue with SoundAbout!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodslink.android.wiredheadphoneroutingfix&hl=de
Now the voice prompts play loud and clear over the car speakers! Every other volume managing app failed miserably!
I used the latest Beta Version btw, going to buy the Pro Version soon.
http://soundabout.userboard.net/f8-download-beta-versions
I did very little changes to the settings, if anyone is interested I can hook you up with some screenshots
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I have this issue as well. SO what did you have to do with this app?