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[Android Apps and Games] Ofcaah:
Not yet. Do you have Jabber/XMPP? Drop me a line at p@75.pl, should go smoother :)

Oh, and where's the paypal donation link? Good support deserves some gratitude in monetary form ;)

BTW. Accelerometer muting should be quite easy to implement *Hint hint* ;>
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Thanks! :) Donate here or using the "Donate to me"-button on the right side. :)

Any volunteers? ;) SayMyName is open-source. Feel free to add it on your own. :)
[Android Apps and Games] X-net:
Translator

Hi Tom!

Just dowload SayMyName_2.5.4.3 Thx for my translation on to Russian :) I saw a bunch of words without translation in connection with the new functionality. Fixed it in "Translator".

Any way, thx for great app. BTW for example alternative name TalkaBot ;)
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Thanks! :) I will include it with the next update. :D

Thanks for the suggestion. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] iraf:
customize pronunciation

Is there a way to customize the pronunciation for specific words or names as replacements for what is produced by pico or loquendo?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] jdunigan07:
nice! i like
[Android Apps and Games] hotsync100:
Hi this is application is amazing !!! Would be possible to read the gtalk messages, with it, it would be perfect !!!
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Try the "Replace Chooser" in Advanced Settings -> Text Settings.

Thanks. :) We're working on supporting GTalk... ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Radioman62:
Plugin & Tasker

Hi

Your nice app works as standalone with SVOX. Great :)

But I can't get the plugin it to work with Tasker. If I write something in the Body field it will say it but I can't fetch anything from any variable in Tasker, fe. %SMSRB (SMS Read Body)

How do I pass the SMS textbody of incoming SMS, to be read by the plugin?

Is it the plugin or Tasker ?

Any hint is great, thanks
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Hello,

I don't support that at the moment. You're only able to toggle some of SayMyName's settings using Locale / Tasker...

I fear it's not worth the work implementing it, since I don't even use Locale or Tasker.

Sorry

Tom
[Android Apps and Games] Radioman62:
Thanks for that Info. Now I know it's not me failing :p

The inbuilt "Say" in tasker is not able to use SVOX with the nice swedish girl speaking to me :o. I have o use the default pico for Android 2.1 and there are no swedish engine available as far as I know.

I have a "SOS task" sending SMS and telling me the phones location via GPS. I want to do that silently without the pone speaking and telling the possibel thief he got a message. Thats why I tried the pluging.

Can you tell me wich settings work to toggle in the plugin at the moment?

Cheers // Radioman62
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
I think that's not possible at the moment, sorry.

However, you could try to use "Contact Chooser" in Advanced Settings - Contact Settings. Maybe that's what you're looking for?

Tom
[Android Apps and Games] dacbeth:
I am unable to get any thing over Bluetooth headset either using the latest version posted on previous page
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Hello,

Unfortunately we don't support Bluetooth at the moment, sorry. However, we're working on updates which should improve Bluetooth-support a little bit.

Tom
[Android Apps and Games] Radioman62:
One man's band

Hi Tom

Sometimes it looks very professional to say "we", but I guess this is a one man's band alltogether isn't it :p ;) ?

That doesn't take away the profy functions of the software. Keep it up :)
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
We are really we for a few months now. ;) However, I'm the "main" developer so far...
[Android Apps and Games] dacbeth:
Tom, On my Evo the latest versions the one on the previous page and the one on the market, do not speak the name then ring the ringer. They only speak the name while the ringer is ringing no matter what choice is made.
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Hello,

This feature seems to cause a lot of problems at the moment. However, we're working on updates that should fix it. :)

Stay tuned

Tom
[Android Apps and Games] dacbeth:
I found that if you first silence the default ringtone in system settings, then pick a ringtone in Say My Name, then it will read the name first then allow the ringer to ring after saying the name for the number of times chosen.
[Android Apps and Games] Exigus:
Post redundant, realized after I posted hah!

Will probably do what I meant to help with when I can use my brain again.

Looks like a nice app btw!
[Android Apps and Games] dacbeth:
The app has gone haywire, won't or will work from minute to minute and I cannot find out why it stops or starts. Have removed and reloaded without it beginning to work and have done the same thing and it does work?? But then stops working, that is no voice or ring, just vibrate. Then it will not allow a ringer to be set, remains on silent and no voice.
[Android Apps and Games] IpDo:
Thanks for this great app!

I have 2 requests.

1. I couldn't get the ringer to start simultaneously with the caller id - tried all the options in the advance menu and nothing.. anyway to fix that?

2. all my contacts names are in Hebrew so i use the option to translate the name to english using google translate - which works very good but that too long. for about 5 seconds I only get the phone vibrating without any sound.

maybe you can add an option to cache the translated names - or even better, add an option to manualy set the english name for the app to speak for each contact.

thanks again.

btw,

I see that the app was translated to Hebrew - but under "he".

under android (or any google product) Hebrew srting is "iw" so the values folder will be "values-iw".
[Android Apps and Games] dacbeth:
I downloaded again to see how it acted this time. Right now it is working except it still will not allow me to pick a ringer through your settings, both system and your ringer settings are silent. But when it finishes speaking a name, it plays the old phone ringer which was the default ringer when I installed the program this time. When I set the system ringer to something, the name is announced during the ringer regardless of the setting. But when the system ringer is set to silent, the name is announced then the old ringer rings even though the Say My Name ringer is also silent.
[Android Apps and Games] sebi112:
1 Problem and 1 Wish:

Problem is that gmail reading sender is not working on my htc legend. sometimes it is working for a mail and on the next it does not work.

Wish: When i sort my contacts to display first the lastname an second the firstname for better finding in contacts app saymyname reads it also this way lastname,firstname.

An option in saymyname to read it firstname,lastname wouldt be great
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Hello, :D

Ringtone feature is too buggy at the moment, but I already fixed it in upcoming versions. :) Mail me if you want to get early access and test it.

Will do so! :)

Gmail feature is buggy too... I'll try to improve it.

Oops! Thanks for the tip!

Synchronized Ringtone + Speech is coming with future updates!

Caching translations is a good, but difficult idea. We'll see...

However, you could use "Nickname" field to set a English name for your contacts... ;)

Good luck everyone

Tom

PS: Sorry for the late answer.
[Android Apps and Games] Rubinski_be:
A long time ago since you've heard me. BUT: i made the translation. You can find it here.
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Thanks for translating! Unfortunately I'm not sure when I'll release the next update to include your translation... :S

Sorry

Tom
[Android Apps and Games] Markino:
Need help: Private mode...

Hi guys!

I'm trying the app on my LG Optimus One but the private mode (only when headphone is plugged in) doesn't work. :(

Any idea?

Another problem I have is that while the phone's ringing if I press the volume button in order to silence the phone, Saymyname still say the caller name... it will be nice that when I silence the phone the app will silence too. Is it possible?

Many thanks and keep up the great work!

Marco
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Hello,

Unfortunately discreet mode is currently broken, sorry. Try an older version (e.g. this one).

And enable "Show Mutescreen" in settings to fix your second problem. ;)

Tom
[Android Apps and Games] Rubinski_be:
Press the thanks button ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Markino:
I've tryed the old version but I've got the same probelm with discrete mode on my LG Optimus One with Froyo. :(
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Sorry to hear that! Either try an even older version, or wait for the next update.

Sorry

Tom
[Android Apps and Games] Markino:
I'll wait for the new version, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] PIRATA!:
So this app has Italian support?? :)
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Yes, it should. ;) Just try it and come back here if something doesn't work...
[Android Apps and Games] sundar2012:
does this have BT support yet?
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Not at the moment, sorry!
[Android Apps and Games] d0ugie:
Thank you Saymyname guy. Thank you.

Few random thoughts:

I know this is going to sound crazy but think it over for a few seconds, how about offering a third version of Saymayname, a second donate one except it's for seven or like ten bucks for those of us who feel you deserve more but are too lazy to try to hunt down a donation link on your XDA thread? Maybe six bucks. Call it Saymyname Badass.

I could be wrong but for reading incoming email names I picture most people preferring that by default it doesn't read the person's title, it only reads the first name and if there is no name it breaks after a period, @, hyphen or an underscore. Just to keep it short and sweet unless the user wants to change it. Otherwise it's kind of weird to other people how much your phone's talking about a single email.
[Android Apps and Games] winwiz:
just installed this and it is excellent.

is there anyway you can add LOCALE or TASKER support? so it only speaks when you add it into a locale or tasker setting?

Many thanks for your help

EDIT: WOW its already supported! Just loaded LOCALE and the setting is there. Perfect program
[Android Apps and Games] Markino:
On my LG Optimus ONE doesn't works on private mode (only with headphone)... :(
[Android Apps and Games] cybernol:
Bluetooth support on SGS Darky 9.2

Hi Tom, First of all thanks for working on this project. very nice.

I have this app for some hours now but I have the feeling some things don't work.

Specially the Bluetooth headset support as I understand from this threat I you don't have one...

I have an old one that is still working, can I Donate this to you ? maybe your able to get BT working than. because I really love it if the name would come out out the BT headset and not from the phone.

Would yo please consider this..

I have 2.5.4.6 installed.

keep the good work up

Greetings...:cool:
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Hello,

At first, sorry for my late reply!

Hehe. ;)

I already thought about multiple Donate apps, but I won't publish them for now. For now, PayPal is enough. ;) I'm still thinking about the pricing of my upcoming apps... Thanks for your suggestion!

SayMyName should cut after certain characters out of the box, and only read the first name, doesn't it?

Sorry, this is a known bug. Please try an older version from here.

Thank you cybernol, but I fear the shipping costs would be too high. ;)

However, I'm already working on an update. If you're interested, sign up here. I think I was able to support some more Bluetooth headsets. :D

Have a great day

Tom
[Android Apps and Games] Markino:
I've just tryed the old version but id doesn't works too... :(
[Android Apps and Games] earie:
Help with Some Voodoo after trying out SayMyName

Sorry. Just found out the source of my problem. Sorry for the noise.
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Ok, if you really need Discreet mode back, uninstall SayMyName first. Afterwards download and install all three files located here. Enable "Announcify" - "Announcify++" - "Behavior Settings" - "Discreet Condition" now. That's it. ;) Good luck! Please tell me if it works.

Hello Eyal,

There's really nothing I can do for you, sorry!

About the mentioned issues:

1) The next update is going to fix that.

2) Dito.

3) Dito. ;)

4) Sorry...

Have a nice day

Tom
[Android Apps and Games] flamestring:
Plugin for Setting Profiles app

Hallo

I bought your SayMyName, it's great, really thanks for it.

Could I ask you to consider implementing a plugin for Setting Profiles app ?

It's brand new release 1.0.19 has plugin support and would be great if SayMyName could be controlled from it. Tasker and Locale are good, byt SP is one of the best and widely used profile manager for manual switching of profiles.

More info here:

http://www.probeez.com/

http://groups.google.com/group/setting-profiles-support

Thanks a lot!
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Hello,

Are you the developer of the app? If so, please send me a mail (tomtasche gmail)

Tom
[Android Apps and Games] flamestring:
No, I'm just a user of it. I've seen on their google forum that doc for plugin developers should be available. Will you take a look or shall I try to facilitate a contact between you and the developers of SP?
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Couldn't find anything about developing plugins... Give me a link and I'll take a look. :)
[Android Apps and Games] flamestring:
Hallo Tom, did you receive email from Slava with link to documentation?
[Android Apps and Games] matt11601:
Trouble with Motorola Atrix

Hi Tom, first off, SayMyName is a great program and I appreciate all your work. Been using this program for a while now through many android phones. I'm currently having problems and would appreciate your help:

Phone

-Motorola Atrix

-Version: Stock Rom 4.1.5.7

-Android Version: 2.2.1

-Version of SayMyName: Latest from Android Market Place

Problem

-SMS messages read every so often. Cannot find a pattern or recreate the problem on my own.

-The name of the caller is not announced at all

Additional Information

-When I open the SayMyName app, I do not see a confirmation message about the TTS engine installed. I always saw this message on previous phones.

-I have re-started my phone several times and this has not helped

-Under "Caller Settings," the "Test Announcement" does work. And it works every time I click it.

Questions

-Are there older versions of SayMyName that I can try?

-Is there any more information you need from me?

Again, thanks a lot for a great app. I am very eager to get this working on my Atrix and would greatly appreciate your help.

-matt

UPDATE: So after a lot of trial and error, version 2.2.6 works the best. I haven't had any problems with it thus far. SMS is read perfectly as well as the incoming caller.
[Android Apps and Games] masaeed13:
I just tried and its a good application:D
[Android Apps and Games] RedSnapper:
hope soon you'll implement separated talking into bluetooth headset!
[Android Apps and Games] hotsync100:
Have you tried super mono froyo ?
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
There's no "Text-To-Speech Extended"-app for you in the Android Market? :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] ScootyPuffJr1:
Nope (on Orange UK). Have to say though, the voice on Text-To-Speech Extended is a lot worse than the default one on the phone. Far too "robotic" sounding and kinda hard to understand at times :(
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Strange! Really strange... Maybe I can add an external download link instead of Market link.
[Android Apps and Games] TattooHtc:
Tattoo

My tattoo sais anything when someone is calling.
[Android Apps and Games] rajnallan:
Hey,

Exceleent job. The phone function is working. I do not know how the Gamil and SMS work with this application. I went to the setting and put in my gmail account and when I sent a test mail to my gmail account. Nothing happens. What should I do so that when an email comes in It should tell me.

Thanks for your kind help and I really appreciate the nice work.

Raj
[Android Apps and Games] dsMA:
I am using a htc hero (sprint) running the alyosius 2.1.2 rom. I had my sister call me and the program successfully said her name, same for announcing who sent the txt

I have 2 questions

1. When using a bluetooth headset will the contact name be sent to the headset instead of the speaker

2. Currently the name announcement plays over the ringtone is there a way to pause the ringtone for the name announcement and resume after
[Android Apps and Games] audioscience:
I've been using your file that's available in the market for a little while now with very few problems and I really like it. I didn't even know about the ability to read back SMS so I've got to try that out.

I just downloaded the 2.2.6.8 file so I'll get back to you if I notice any differences. :)
[Android Apps and Games] abrigham:
Not sure if anyone else has reported this (didn't see it after a quick read of the thread) but on my EVO 4G the discreet mode doesn't seem to work... even with it on, it reads caller/sms info when I don't have a headset plugged in...

Running rooted stock 2.2
[Android Apps and Games] dsMA:
What are the changes from 6.5 to 6.8? I did not see a change log
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
I don't own a bluetooth-headset, but if you send me a mail I could try to make it work.

Go to advanced settings and try "Play Ringtone"-setting. If it's enabled, it should start ringtone after announcing the name (but it's very buggy).

SayMyName doesn't announce your own Gmails, sorry. Additionally, it only announces known mail-adresses (the ones saved in your addressbook).

SMS announcement should work out of the box.

Hm... It works fine on my Nexus. Maybe HTC Sense works different... :(
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Sorry, I don't know anymore. I think translations and some fixes.
[Android Apps and Games] smartsreenath:
cool appk............:):):):):)
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Thanks! :) Tell me if you miss a feature...
[Android Apps and Games] dsMA:
My new jawbone should arrive next week so I'll do some test and ldt you know how they go.

Question

1. What jaw discreet mode, it says play only in ear phone and me this sounds like if you had a headset this mode would over ride the speaker and send to the headset?

2. When clicking play ringtone the app asks me to pick a ringtone so does that mean it will override the costume ringtones I have set up for each person?
[Android Apps and Games] dsMA:
I have a HTC hero running sense, let me know what discreet mode is supposed to do and I'll see if it's a sense issue.
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Great!

If discreet mode is enabled, SayMyName won't speak if there are no headset plugged in. It SHOULD route speech to your headset, but I'm not sure if this works on every phone / headset.

If play ringtone is enabled, SayMyName will start the selected ringtone after it's finished speaking. It won't override your custom ringtones, but you'll probably hear two ringtones at the same time.
[Android Apps and Games] dsMA:
This is just my opinion but I think play ringtone should work as follows

Access caller defined ringtone

Pause ringtone

Say callers name

Start ringtone

Pause ringtone & repeat

Is this possible because as I stated in a previous post (without play ringtone clicked) it plays the ringtone & name @ the same time
[Android Apps and Games] BradB32:
Hello, great application you are developing it works very well. I am using it on my HTC Incredible, android 2.1 not rooted (yet lol) and a Jabra Extreme headset. I like the discreet mode so now I can hear only in the bluetooth headset the caller and sms texts. (one of the previous versions from the market I think would play the sound through the bluetooth headset and the phone, just bluetooth is much better for me so the discreet option is very good:)

I am actually moslty using the locale plugin part of the program which I access using Tasker. This way Tasker triggers SayMyName whenever I turn on my BT headset, and then disables it when my BT headset is disconnected. I am very interested to see how this will all work once the Incredible gets 2.2 update and will be happy to tell you of anything I find.

2 things of interest, right now we can only add one gmail account for SayMyName to announce, if possible it would be great to be able to add and announce multiple gmail accounts. Also would like it to be able to pause music when making announcement but this may be 2.2 vs 2.1 issue? Thanks so much for this app :)
[Android Apps and Games] Saphroxx:
Very sweet app! Lotso f usefull features.

If you still need help with translations for NL_BE & NL_NL let me know!
[Android Apps and Games] disaster_ita:
Hi TomTasche, your app is woderful! :eek:

I am testing it on an HTC Desire with official OTA update to Froyo applyed (no root), language: italian.

It work well, some notes:

I have set format string to "% call from &" (in italian "% chiama da &"). It tell "<name> call from e"! The "&" is not converted.

If I check both "read unknown" and "read number for unknown", it tell nothing, only one check enabled do well. So you should use radio button (one check disables the others).

"unknown" is not translated in other language, I suggest you to give the user the option to write what to tell, should be simple ;-)

Tasker integration sound good! I would add option to switch discrete mode on/off, start/stop app, change volume and string format.

Unfortunately from today I have a problem with the phone: can't mount sd card, so I can't use many apps. Arrrgggg :mad:

Furthermore also my bluetooth headset is broke (from today also it!).

So for now test are paused.

Good work man ;-)
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Hello guys,

Unfortunately, I can't answer all your questions at the moment. I'm off till tomorrow, but will answer your questions then!

Thanks

Tom
[Android Apps and Games] AndyCr15:
[/quote] - (support bluetooth if i can find somebody who helps me testing!)[/quote]

Hi, you realise I offered to help a couple of weeks back, but you just told me I was welcome to code it in myself :(

I'm still willing to help if you want, it's a nice app otherwise.
[Android Apps and Games] TechnoTone:
I'm also getting this problem on a rooted Desire running 2.2.
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
- (support bluetooth if i can find somebody who helps me testing!)[/quote]

Hi, you realise I offered to help a couple of weeks back, but you just told me I was welcome to code it in myself :(

I'm still willing to help if you want, it's a nice app otherwise.[/QUOTE]

Now I'm more motivated to improve SayMyName. ;) Sorry...

I'll look at this problem soon.
[Android Apps and Games] st40611:
Is there a way to increase the volume? The volume even at max is still too low for me. :/
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Go to advanced settings, disable "Use Ringer's volume" and set "ringtone-independent volume" as high as possible. It's not possible to make it louder (unless you have a rooted phone... I think there's an app that makes your phone louder.)

Sorry
[Android Apps and Games] OTDL:
just installed the app and its great to ahve these features back. i will esp love having this when the car dock is finally released.

i will test today and tonight and report back any bugs. BT is a feature i will be testing out the most. Please let me know if i can help in any other way.
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
Hello guys,

At the moment I'm very busy, but I try my best to add new features to SayMyName.

Please keep reporting issues / requests here! :) I read as often as possible what you write here.

Updates to come on Thursday.

Thanks

Tom

edit:

If any developers read this: I need help at StackOverflow! Thanks. :)
[Android Apps and Games] dsMA:
in the original post under change logs you list "pause music during speech for android 2.2"

so is it not possible for this to occur on phones running 2.1?
[Android Apps and Games] TomTasche:
I couldn't find a way to do it with older versions, sorry! Blame Google. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] AndyCr15:
So, what would you need from anyone to enable reading of messages and such through A2DP Bluetooth?