[android-developers] Re: Speech to Text (STT) Support on Android Keyboard

Hi Niral,
I'm also currently researching on STT. Here's the required link on
android's official website:

http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/speech-input.html

There is a sample available in the latest sdk for API level 8 as
well. Have you tried that out?

Maqsood
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On Jul 22, 11:33 am, Niral Shah <niralhs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have a 2.1 sdk(eclair) version Samsung device, which has virtual
> keyboard with a microphone indicator to support speech to text (STT).
> Our application is mostly a text entry application and uses
> Inputconnection class and committext method to recognize the inputs
> and put all the entered text on display.
> In swype input mode, if we press the microphone, the voice recognition
> automatically runs(shows recording interface, records, synthesizes and
> sends text to commit text, and hence it is working. However, for
> "Android keyboard" input , the recording interface automatically shows
> up, however, we do not receive committext callback, so nothing is
> updated on our text box after the recording.
>
> So, seems we have 2 options:
>
> 1. Disable only the mike/microphone keys visibility on the Android
> keypad. How can this be done?
>
> 2. Have the STT to work on the Android keyboard. Seems that the keypad
> is automatically starting a recording interface - hence we do not know
> how to even integrate the voice recognition program given in the sdk
> 2.1 examples VoiceRecognition.java file. How can we detect the
> microphone/mike key was pressed? Or how can we do this?
>
> Please suggest/provide feedback on any of the options above. Any
> information will be very helpful.
>
> Best Regards,
> Niral

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