CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user1259962
user1259962

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Phone-to-phone communication on Android

I am building an app that converts text messages to speech and sends them to the destination. At the other end, the speech is converted back to text messages.

I imagine it may be easy with Twilio but I don't want to use internet connection. A simple call should be enough to transmit the data.

Any idea on how I should proceed with this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 502

Answers (1)

Idistic
Idistic

Reputation: 6301

I don't think this is really possible to do, your tasks would be pretty heavy ...

  1. TTS- that's no problem android has a library for that TTS and recording it

  2. Make a phone call and monitor state Make phone call monitor state

  3. Send your synthesized message - can't quite find a way to do this, seems problematic sending recorded messages over phone network it has been suggested that you could play the recording over the speaker and the microphone might pick that up, seems like a good way to introduce even more errors into the system though

  4. On the other end something must answer - Answering a phone call

  5. Record incoming call - this seems to be highly problematic on a non-rooted phone Recording incoming calls? or Recording incoming calls

  6. Take the recording and do reliable STT without the benefit of a server back end, also highly problematic since the translation errors even on high end server apps are sometimes quite comical

So without a rooted phone with a custom rom I don't think all of this is possible even if you could overcome the poor quality of a double translation TTS -> STT

Twillo seems to be about making calls over the net vs. the phones digital network not about sending text (in essence) over a phone connection

Seems like a whole lot of extra work just to avoid an internet connection charge (of about 2 seconds and few bytes!)

Upvotes: 1

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