Hey Sven, here's some thoughts: MobileOrg Android already supports speech to text in that, you can go to capture a new note and click the mic button on the soft keyboard and start speaking. I don't see that it would be particularly difficult to integrate this in a larger fashion. There could be a button on the capture interface that would let you start it automatically.
You could also create (or extend the existing) Desktop Widget to include a button for capturing a note and/or capturing a note via spoken word. Also... given that you had a button to activate the speech to text without having to pull up the soft keyboard... you could write another application that calls MobileOrg's Capture activity with that mode enabled. http://matburt.net On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretf...@gmx.ch> wrote: > Hi together > > TextToSpeech has made our lives easier, especially for car-drivers like > me. I have tried to capture tasks by voice on my Android device and > implement them automatically to my org-files at home. The results are > practicable but far from optimal by now. Maybe there are some Android > users on this list who like to get involved in trying to find an optimal > solution. > > *My method at the moment:* > > I use "tasker," the Android killer-app for automatizing almost every > thinkable task. Created a new task called "org-voice" with tasker. > Pressing the associated icon does the following: > > 1. Plays Darth Vader's voice saying "What is thy bidding, my master?" > > 2. Loads app Voice2Clipboard > > 3. Waits for 30 seconds (to get Voice2Clipboard ready for recording and > for me to finish speaking the note) > > 4. Write File: Writes the clipboard content to a file > /sdcard/dropbox/org/org-voice.org > > After uploading the file with Dropbox, a cronjob on my PC (which is > always switched on) takes care of the file. Its lines (each is a capture > item) are transformed by a series of sed operations and put into a > different file from-org-voice.org together with some TAGS and a TODO > keyword; after that the original file is emptied. That's it. > > The problem with this approach is that you still have to manually > download the (empty) capture-file (org-voice.org)[¹] and to manually > upload > it again, because Dropbox for Android doesn't sync changed files on the > sdcard automatically. And especially to upload process needs quite a > view clicks. > > *What would be better:* > > Use MobileOrg and have the clipboard contents written into the file used > by MobileOrg for written captures. This is > /sdcard/mobileorg/mobileorg.org if you use sdcard-storage. This way, you > could use MobileOrg's own syncing process and no cronjob would be > necessary. > > This could be done in two ways: > > 1. Use the same procedure and let tasker write the contents into the > file directly. This is not possible for me since I have to use > internal-storage for reasons of performance[²] and the files in > /data/data/com.matburt.mobileorg/files/ are not writable for other > programs without root. > > 2. Use tasker to start MobileOrg, enter the capture dialog and have a > voice recognition app started. I simply don't know how to do that. > > Maybe tasker can even be programmed to automatically start MobileOrg's > syncing process from time to time. But I don't know if and how this is > possible. > > Does anybody have a better solution? Or a better idea? > > Greetings, > > Sven > > [¹] If you don't, the next sync with dropbox would replace the file > with your notes by the empty file hosted on the Dropbox server. > [²] On HTC Magic (Android 1.6) sdcard-storage makes MobileOrg > incredibly slow. It takes more than a minute after starting MobileOrg > until the files are displayed. > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >
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