Dear all,
This application was inspired by the fact that there are great demand on editing and sending quick SMS, without much action from your hands (no keyboard typing, minimum screen touches). Unfortunately, current applications on the market do not provide an adequate handsfree experience, as they still require many clicks on the screen (search for contacts, select contacts, switch to message text box, etc.). Besides, most of them do not allow multiple sentences to be inputted at one go, as you might need to click to the listen button again and again to add new sentences. Furthermore, punctuation marks and capitalization between sentences are not well managed.
Given the aforementioned reasons, we have created this application, which provides:
Handsfree contact searching
Handsfree contact select and unselect
Handsfree message editing
Support multi-sentence message. You just need to speak sentence by sentence
Support punctuation marks. You can speak "Hello comma how are you doing question mark", the result will be "Hello, how are you doing?". You can also add punctuation marks at the end of your sentence just by saying it.
Auto capitalization at the beginning of sentence
Support sentence or message deletion with voice command
Send message to SMS application with voice command
Adding emoticon with voice commands
Let us make the SMS editing by voice a real handsfree process.
Play store URL: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tphan.smsbyvoice
If you see that this application can potentially interesting to you, please don't hesitate to take a look and try it. Your feedbacks will be strongly appreciated and valuable for the evolution of our application.
Best regards
TienDatPhan said:
Dear all,
This application was inspired by the fact that there are great demand on editing and sending quick SMS, without much action from your hands (no keyboard typing, minimum screen touches). Unfortunately, current applications on the market do not provide an adequate handsfree experience, as they still require many clicks on the screen (search for contacts, select contacts, switch to message text box, etc.). Besides, most of them do not allow multiple sentences to be inputted at one go, as you might need to click to the listen button again and again to add new sentences. Furthermore, punctuation marks and capitalization between sentences are not well managed.
Given the aforementioned reasons, we have created this application, which provides:
Handsfree contact searching
Handsfree contact select and unselect
Handsfree message editing
Support multi-sentence message. You just need to speak sentence by sentence
Support punctuation marks. You can speak "Hello comma how are you doing question mark", the result will be "Hello, how are you doing?". You can also add punctuation marks at the end of your sentence just by saying it.
Auto capitalization at the beginning of sentence
Support sentence or message deletion with voice command
Send message to SMS application with voice command
Adding emoticon with voice commands
Let us make the SMS editing by voice a real handsfree process.
Play store URL: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tphan.smsbyvoice
If you see that this application can potentially interesting to you, please don't hesitate to take a look and try it. Your feedbacks will be strongly appreciated and valuable for the evolution of our application.
Best regards
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This is a good variant. I think it's better to use apps that have templates or ready-made phrases, of course you need to touch the screen, but a minimum of touches. I'm comfortable with this. You should always aim at a large number of people. I have an example of such an application for images with text like sms https://www.maxaboutsms.com/love_sms.aspx . I use them because they are cute, they can be quickly and conveniently searched for and used. It is also very easy to install. I wish you good luck, I like your approach. People like you do mobile and unique things.
Dear, thank you for your feedback . Definitely, that is also a potential approach. For our application, we target the minimization of screen touch. For now, with our application, users can search for contacts, select/unselect targeting contacts, edit message (add sentences and delete sentences), and forward the message to the default SMS application, with only ONE single touch (to start the voice recognition). With this approach, we believe that it fits various use cases in which users prefer to minimize the number of touches on screen. And last but not least, your messages will not be limited by a finite number of ready-made phrases :-D
UPDATE: Version 1.0.1
We have just released an update which:
Fixes the issue on voice recognition library visibility on Android 11 (for those who have experience with Android 11, this library visibility is no stranger to them)
Improves the flow between searching contacts and editing message. For example, if the application is currently focusing on the message editing, and you say "Drop all contacts", the application will unselect all selected targeting contacts for you, and also switch the focus to contact autocomplete box.
Allows users to re-enable the tutorial. It will be useful if you forgot how the application works and want to see the showcases again.
Related
Finnish Aali Alikoski, Academic Developer Evangelist of Microsoft Finland, has just released a highly useful application, SMS Notifier, along with its source code.
The application offers some really nice and, up to now, to my knowledge, on the Pocket PC Phone Edition platform, unprecedenced functionality: it waits for unanswered incoming calls and, depending on the configuration settings, it either sends an SMS message to the caller (with configurable contents), possibly containing also the end time of current appointment (this is also configurable) or adds an item to the system-level Windows Mobile calendar (containing the caller info).
The latter functionality is nothing new – you can check the caller's identity and the call date/time in any low-end mobile phone. The former – that is, the SMS feedback –, however, is really long-awaited!
Downloading and Installation
You can download the application here. Transfer the CAB file to your PDA and execute it there.
If, after installing and upon starting SMS Notifier, you're presented this error message, make sure you download and install .NET CF 2.0 from Microsoft. Make sure you install it in the main memory. Also note that, as the application heavily relies on the new, connectivity/database-related libraries of .NET CF2, it's not very easy to port it to run under the earlier Compact Framework library. (For CAB lovers, you will only need c:\Program Files\ Microsoft.NET\SDK\CompactFramework\ v2.0\WindowsCE\wce500\armv4i\NETCFv2.wm.armv4i.cab ; you can also download it from here (to avoid having to download the 24 Mbyte-long MSI installer).
Configuration
On the main set-up screen, there're some checkboxes in AND relationship. The first one, Send SMS to unanswered callers, instructs the application to send an SMS to everybody that tries to call you but his or her calls remain unanswered. Using (not disabling) the second two checkboxes, however, you may make the application not send a SMS to anyone that calls you, just to the ones that call you during an active/busy appointment.
The checkbox/text input area at the bottom makes it possible to report the end of the current appointment so that he or she can know when you are reachable again.
The Calendar tab contains only one checbox, which instructs the application to enter all the incoming calls into Calendar.
Note that the configuration settings are not correctly saved/restored, as the author also points out.
Usage
To use the application, just start and configure it to your liking. Do not click the Quit button – then, it won't send your callers any SMS. Just let it run. You can, of course, suspend the PDA while you do so and also minimize the application. This also means you can safely start it from \Windows\Startup (just like the other highly recommended application, PMRecorder – please see this article on it if interested) – if it's running in the background, it'll safely catch all unanswered calls.
Other stuff
I also recommend the author's blog here. Don't be taken aback of some of the material's being in Finnish: there's nothing really interesting in them for non-Finns (the Finnish blog posts are only about local, Finnish meetings, conferences). Unfortunately, some of the other Finnish .NET bloggers (see the links in the lower left of the page) post exclusively in Finnish, even highly technical stuff that would be interesting for non-Finnish speakers too. (Feel free to ask me in my blog for a public translation for some of them if really interested.)
Hi
I was wondering if somewhere out there any one has come across with an APP which can read the contents in an SMS and do an action based on the content
For example
Receive a TEXT MESSAGE (SMS) from
Mike <+1234567890>
Content
"Hi Mike my friend Alice is looking for the address of your firm can u send her your business card her number is <+9876543210> and she is waiting for your contact information."
<End of Message>
Commonly available FILTER programs like MAGICALL, etc
Wud normally recognise and reply with a predefined message a specific contact or a list of contact in this case it wud reply to MIKE <+1234567890>
My requirement is to reply to the number contained in the SMS
in this example
ALICE <+9876543210> with a pre defined message.
Any one out there have a similar requirement. Kindly join in and pipe up
Else its me all alone
Any help from any quarter is solicited
Sadly my core strengths are DATABASE management
So i cant really write a program based on WM5 or WM6 or dont know how to or where to start as well.
Regards
Al
It seems that u have been asking this in a lot of threads including mine.
I dont think this is a common requirement.
Besides the logic to code this would also be difficult as there could be many nos besides the actual phone nos to interpret.
I am very busy with my website, callfirewall etc right now.
May be later, I'll give it a shot if many people ask for it.
imho wm5 API could do that. it can search for the message content for particular words and then do something if it finds those words contained in the message.
"imho wm5 API could do that. it can search for the message content for particular words and then do something if it finds those words contained in the message."
but it would require a flag to be set for each msg where the action had already been performed otherwise it would keep doing it over and over
also it's a pretty wack'd security breach if the "protocol" became known and no only from contacts functionality was added
in a nokia handset
in a nokia handset when u press the green dial key while reading an sms it shows the sender number the number inside the sms
basically
i program on VISUAL FOXPRO
if u use a function call val("hi worl 9845098450") it wud return 9845098450.00
i wish i knew how to access i cud do string manipulations fairly easy
send me in the right direction n mebbe i cud get far
rgds
Al
For eg. if the sms is
"Call xyz on +2345566 at 16:30 hrs"
now there r a lot of issues,
1. getting the '+' with the no. there can be problems calling the no without the '+'.
2. it will also interpret '16' and '30' as nos.
The program has to be coded keeping in mind human mentalities of sending such smses.
Thanx for the prompt reply shailesh
The messages i receive are generally in a fixed format and are generated from my e-commerce app and the format is
"Call Mr xyz at 9812354321/08066661234 immed looking for your company, additionally it has a mail addy also [email protected]"
Any help or send me the required direction
Regards
Al
My Kaiser comes with Cyberon Voice commander (CVC), however, the default CVC behavior is to include ALL contacts for voice recognition! I have over 1200+ contacts in my contacts and most of them are business associates that I will NEVER want to call them with my phone with CVC. However they are needed to stay in my Contacts for email and provide phone number lookup when I use company phone to make calls.
I do have people I definitely want to use CVC to make call and most of them are under either 'family' or 'friends' categories. (maybe only around 100 people)
The voice recognition success rate also goes down a lot due to so many people has similar names. This makes CVC almost unusable for me if I don't disable all those contacts that doesn't need voice control.
The problem is in CVC control applet, you can only disable contact ONE-BY-ONE by hand! Not even a "disable all" function available! Also, new contacts are automatically added into voice control database....
So, is there anyway to have a function like "disable all" so I can add in only the contact I want, or even better, add only contacts under certain categories (such as "family") but not others?
Thanks in advance!
good question, I would like to know if theres a way also.......
lssong99 said:
The problem is in CVC control applet, you can only disable contact ONE-BY-ONE by hand! Not even a "disable all" function available! Also, new contacts are automatically added into voice control database....
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Dear lssong99,
Cyberon conquest the tester for CVC 3.0, the setting of CVC 3.0 support "Select all" function, you can join the testing plan of CVC 3.0, and you can get the free-trial version of CVC 3.0, please refer to web page below.
http://www.cyberon.com.tw/newsContent1.php?NO1=35&SNO=0
I cannot believe there is not a program similar to the windows program "Keyboard Express." If it is useful on a computer it should be doubly so for a smartphone. I am really tired of typing out my email addresses for starters. I am not part of the texting generation typing with thumbs at 100000 keystrokes a minute. Swype is ok, but it would be nice if I could program long strings as a custom gesture or something. Also program macros that could launch programs in batches or with custom parameters. Find it amazing with all the apps out there that I couldn't find one that does this obviously useful function. Maybe I searched for the wrong thing?
I use an app called inserty. It's not as convenient as if it were built in to the keyboard, but it's very flexible, allowing you to insert canned text like email addresses and passwords or text with fill-in fields like the current date and time, your GPS location, etc.
The way it works is that it's a keyboard replacement. To insert something with Inserty, you long-press in the text you're writing, pick "Input method", and pick Inserty. That pops up a list of all your canned phrases; tap on the one you want and then it prompts you for which keyboard you want to go back to. The selected phrase is inserted just as if you had typed it manually, and you're back to your email or SMS or whatever.
As I said, it's not the most convenient mechanism you can imagine, although it certainly beats typing in my longish email address, but I don't think Android has the hooks to do anything less clunky.
The other thing I should mention, since you're a Swype user, is that the SlideIT keyboard has an abbreviation facility that you can customize. For example, you could associate the abbreviation EML with the text [email protected]; every time you trace "eml", one of the words in the suggestion bar will be that abbreviation (abbreviations are shown in green, IIRC), and selecting that entry will insert [email protected] into the text you are writing.
I use Clipper+
It's a clipboard manager. I have mine set easily access via the notification bar. The Snippets feature is what I use the most.
I can easily paste my 18+ character email address, login credentials, short phrases.
Check it out the free version http://market.android.com/details?id=org.rojekti.clipper
Thanks for the replies, I am exploring the programs mentioned. They might not be very direct, but useful.
I ended up using Clipper, it serves the function, albeit awkwardly.
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I ended up using Clipper, it serves the function, albeit awkwardly.
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Just want to say thanks for the thread....solved my long entry problems.
Macro Keyboard
Cubeology
You may try the 'Macro Keyboard' , which allows to define aliases
for arbitrary text. Texts can even be parameterized.
Have a look on the Android market. I am not allowed to post a link here yet
Regards
The author
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Won’t automatically send a message if:
You are in a call with this person
You recently missed a call from this person (configurable)
This person recently sent a message and you didn’t reply (configurable)
Won’t automatically start a call if you:
Are in a call with this person
Were in a call with this person and didn’t end the period selected with a missed call
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Supports multiple people (when upgraded)
Won’t repeat the last message sent
Set a maximum number of messages per day, week or month
Notifications for upcoming messages (configurable)
Notifications populated with recent conversation history and favorite messages (favorites are currently available on Android 9.0 and later)
Time zone aware (it’ll do the right thing regardless of where you are)
Upcoming messages can be easily edited, disabled, postponed, skipped or quickly changed to other frequently sent messages
History of what messaging actions were taken and why
Tentatively planned features
Won’t automatically send a message if:
You recently sent one (configurable)
You’re at a loved one’s place (configurable)
Biometric authentication to open app
Display actual MMS pictures/content in notifications
Enhanced Artificial Intelligence and machine learning
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