Questions tagged [voice]

A voice in programming may refer to voice synthesis (e.g. transforming text to speech) and voice recognition (e.g. transforming speech to text, voice commands).

A voice in programming may refer to voice synthesis (e.g. transforming text to speech) and voice recognition (e.g. transforming speech to text, voice commands).

Despite being an rather old engineering task (with some commercial products available in late 1990-s) it's still considered advanced and challenging technology and it's very far from perfection.

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Is there a way to have change female to male voice during the conversation in DialogFlow (Api.ai)

We a building a chatbot app for Google Home using Api.ai (Dialogflow now) which has both male and female historical figures. We are using Actions on google. Google lets you default to a male or female voice when deploying the app. Is there a way to…
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Can a SearchView have both voiceSearchButton and keyboard's voice input?

I'm adding voice search capabilities to my app's search interface. Currently, it looks like this: To add voice search, I added a voiceSearchMode to my Searchable Configuration, which adds a button in the SearchView to trigger the voice dialog. The…
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TextToSpeech: check if it is on-line or off-line for API < 21

I am trying to implement an app that reads text in different languages. Surprisingly, when I use the method isLanguageAvailable(Locale loc), it returns true for languages in the Google TTS list that are not downloaded yet. They are even played when…
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Voice Biometrics for Android

i am planning to build a voice authentication system for android devices. Simply meaning instead of the login screen where you have to type your password or draw the pattern, you only only need to say one word such as "Login" and the phone…
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Launch Google Now or phone default voice search?

I need to give users a method to launch their phone's voice assistant from my app, be it Google Now or anything else. When searching on how to do this I keep finding explanations on how to get voice input while I just want to launch Google Now in…
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What software or service can I use to programatically make phone calls with?

I'm looking to programatically make phone call reminders to customers based upon their opt-in requests. I am NOT a telemarketer. I need to make a phone call, and play a message. I need to leave a message after the beep if an answering machine or…
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How to implement voice chat in cocoa?

I have made a simple chat application using AsyncSocket class where client nodes can send message to each other via chat server application. I want to integrate voice chat functionality in it but I am not getting any material over net which can…
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How to convert male to female or animal voice in android?

I am working on android voice application. I wanted to take my voice and convert it into different voices (female, animal, etc.). I am able to convert my voice in different frequency but it change the frequency of my voice. I have implemented in…
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How to make MFCC algorithm?

I wanna make the Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Algorithm but there are some things that I don't understand. After FTT is done we need to "Map the powers of the spectrum obtained above onto the mel scale, using triangular overlapping windows." I know how to…
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Launch app on voice command (android)

I need an example of how I could launch my app on a voice command (trigger word). So some sort of a service running in the background listening to everything and if the word matches a set textual value (I guess this can be done through Voice…
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Does anyone know any service similar to Tropo?

I have used tropo and pretty happy with the service http://tropo.com/ Does anyone know of a reliable alternative?
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Compare audio files for "Voice Authentication"

I'm developing an Iphone app. This application is used for storing user's personal data. For the security purpose we are looking to provide a new feature in our application, user can access the data after logged-in to the application. The issue is…
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How to Recognise when user START & STOP speaking in android? (Voice Recognition in Android)

I have done a lot of R&D and gone through a lot of resources to resolve my problem but I have FAILED to get any proper solution. I have developed an app, now i want to add Voice based functionality to it. The required features are 1) when USER…
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"Voice trigger" detection

I have a voice application that would be much-improved if there was the ability to use a "trigger word" to start recording audio. I don't need a full speech-text engine, just the ability to reliably/efficiently detect the trigger word. I am…
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Compiling a C# .NET Application with a Google Voice API

So from scouring the internet I managed to find an apparently working "Google Voice API". Which is great! I'm working on an application that detects when a server process crashes / errors out and then notifies me through text. It'd be really useful…
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