AutoVoice Voice to Tap

Hi,

By way of introduction, I'm the father of a son who has lost the use of his limbs due to multiple brain tumors, and am looking for a way to have an ebook reader (PocketBooks) respond to his voice in order to turn pages, either forward or backward. The reader when run and a book chosen, waits for a right screen tap to advance a page, or a left screen tap to go to the previous page. If possible, the solution should be a set of vocal commands, such as "right or "left" which would advance or turn back a page.

What I need therefore is easily described, but seemingly requires voice triggers and macros. I'm not a programmer, and what I read about the process is seemingly complex for a beginner. I would hope that some guru or other would help, either describing the solution or pointing me in the right direction to solve it myself.

Thanks

 

The application is called Pocketbooks, and my son can read the text himself. It's not necessary for the text to be read aloud.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Almost all the ebook readers for android just require taps along the right or left sides of the screen - no buttons.
To get a feel for these applications why not install "Pocketbooks", which will give you a good feel for the application. I can set up the reader for my son, fonts etc, so that all he would have to do is say 'tap right' or 'tap left'. As I've said, I'm a novice and setting up an Autoinput action in Tasker would be daunting. At the present moment I'm 84 years old, and have had lots of programming experience in assembly language, basic, fortran, cobol etc, none of which help much - all languages take a goodly amount of time to master, and time is what I don't have now, what with all the care my son needs.

Quite frankly, I'm really surprised that nobody seems to have taken (up to now) the notion of voice to screen taps as a global macro.

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That's the one.
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Unfortunately I don't have a Nexus device, so the Android N solution won't work. I think that perhaps the Windows OS might provide a solution using its versions of voice input (voicebot), and setting up a system to control a Windows ebook reader. What this needs is a Win Tablet capable of running Win OS, which I unfortunately don't have.

In any event, thanks for all your help, and if any new ideas pop up please let me know.

Martin Hack

 

My current device is a Nook HD+, which is running an AFN OS (4.4.2). It's not rooted, and the OS resides on a flashdrive, allowing me to keep the Nook OS or the Android OS, which runs just about anything on Google Play.

 

I';ve just rechecked and if anything would work with a rooted Nook HD+ I also have that option.

 

I see what you mean. However, you would still have to have voice input to activate tasker to play the screen tap macro. I still find myself mystified that so seemingly simple an operation cannot be dealt with.
As I've stated before, all I need is a voice to tap macro that runs in the background while another application waits for a tap input. Sounds simple, and I wish I had enough knowledge to be able to do it!

 

Thanks joaomgcd. I now have Autovoice and Tasker (paid). I've been able to set Autovoice to continuous but am mystified by Tasker. I can get to the place where I can add a new profile, but can't seem to get any further. I'll keep trying, but any help, as usual, would be on the money.

In searching around the web I've found that Tasker has a code section where you can write a shell script based on screen locations. I've learned to get developer rights and supposedly I can write "input tap x y, for a point on the right side of the screen (http://www.pocketables.com/2013/07/how-to-emulate-touch-input-using-tasker-and-root.html). Take a look.

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A miss is as good as a mile! It's taken me many hours of just fooling around, and I still have a bit of trouble understanding the workflow necessary. This is where I am:
1. Get autovoice running in the background.
2. Set up a profile in Tasker for autovoice.
3. Set up a task to input tap x y on the trigger from autovoice.
4. Pray!

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Will get to that sometime today. I feel middling about my capabilities, but I guess I'll muddle through.