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Hey Guys,

Been a long time since I was an Esato regular, however, was hoping for a bit of constructive feedback. Wrote an app called NameBuzz:



If you're on your phone you can install with the following link:
market://search?q=pname:com.dazbradbury.namebuzz

Appbrain URL: NameBuzz on AppBrain

It's only available on Android 2.1 and above, does that rule out SE phones for the time-being? If someone wants to try it on a 1.6 SE Device let me know and I'll send you the file, can't test it myself though!

If anyone gives it a go, feel free to let me know what you think!
Cheers,
Daz.

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Posted: 2010-08-30 15:49:45
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Hi Daz, nice to have you back.

Yeah, I think it sounds good. With my previous non-smart SE phones you could set up the 'Play caller name' feature via the speed dialling set up and I always found this useful and one of the features I miss on my current phone.

So with your application, would the 'Speak Caller Name' feature be a recording of your own voice or would it be googles? And if so could we choose male or female?

The Custom vibrate is also a good feature as you can tell who is calling.

Not sure about the vibrate pattern based on the syllables of the callers name because most peoples names have 1,2,3 syllables. i.e, Jason, steven, david, connie, etc, all have two syllables.
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Posted: 2010-08-31 11:13:20
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Hey,

Thanks for the feedback!



So firstly, it uses Google's Text-to-speech library. The set-up it uses for the time being is the default one based on your language settings. At some point, this could be made customisable though!



The idea here is that you only have 5 or so people who call you regularly, hence, the chances are their names will be differentiate-able at least. In the even that isn't the case, you can customise each contact as you please. After a week or so use, you should be able to tell who is calling just from the buzz pattern, something I find really useful in meetings/public transport/cinema etc..

So are you running Android at the moment? If it's a version less than 2.1, let me know if you want to test it out. I can't guarantee it will work though, hence me making it a requirement in the market.

Cheers!
Daz.



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Posted: 2010-08-31 14:30:52
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Well my update to Eclair comes near the end of September but I'd love to test it for you.
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Posted: 2010-08-31 14:52:43
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I'd love to test your app (on a X10 mini, running Android 1.6)

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Posted: 2010-08-31 16:43:29
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Goldenface, I've sent it your way.

RandomCarpet, If goldenface tells me it works on 1.6, I'll enable it in the market and you can you can give it a go. I'm not too optimistic, as I think I might be using some of the 2.0 features, so will wait till goldenface gets back. Thanks for the interest though!
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Posted: 2010-09-01 00:28:46
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Seeing as SE have rolled out an android 2.1 upgrade, has anyone got this working on an SE device?
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Posted: 2010-11-26 11:17:45
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hello

just to help you out i have downlaoded it and its working fine on a x10 mini pro after i installed the speech part...


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Posted: 2010-11-29 16:12:23
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Awesome! If you come across any problems, let me know.

Cheers,
Daz.
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Posted: 2010-11-29 18:21:48
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have had it on my mini for 24 hrs and 30plus calls and 75txts and all seems fine so well done

query though can it be implemented so that i can change the single voice to different ones for different people as that would be awesome??

thanks james
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Posted: 2010-11-30 16:59:33
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