Easy Voice Radio

About Easy Voice Radio Android App

Easy Voice Radio is a voice-enabled app for playing Internet radio stations and podcasts. It is designed to be as simple as possible for visually impaired persons, but may also appeal to regular users.

For each audio source (radio station or podcast url) the user chooses a "voice tag" which he or she will speak to begin station streaming or podcast playback. URLs can be entered manually or by selecting from over four hundred pre-defined radio stations and podcasts.

Once an audio source is configured, the user can start it by just tapping anywhere on the screen to start the voice recognizer, then speaking the voice tag. Stopping requires only another tap on the screen. Thus, although sight is required for setup, once it is done, a visually impaired user can just tap and speak to enjoy an unlimited number of stations or podcasts.

Audio source setup includes a training step to match the user's speech utterances to the audio tag. Thus, "clear" speech is not required, just repeatability. So, for instance, the user can use both a "regular" and a "tired" voice during the training. All resulting variants in the interpreted speech will be matched to the audio tag.

The current time can be requested with the reserved "time" audio tag, and the player screen optionally displays the time in large characters.

Features:

•  unlimited number of audio sources
•  latest podcast episodes automatically checked and downloaded once per day
•  only latest podcast episode retained on the device, no clutter
•  context-sensitive help
•  simple and clean UI, no superfluous graphics, no ads

Limitations

Easy Voice Radio be unable to play downloaded podcast episodes on some devices running Android 2.2 (Froyo) I have noticed this on my Samsung Galaxy S

I intend to release more versions of Easy Voice Radio, so feedback on performance, usability and desired features are welcome.

Permissions

Easy Voice Radio requires these permissions:

•  Record Audio
•  Internet