Chapter 3Listening to Your Android
Customizing your home screen’s look and behavior is visually stimulating, but there are so many other facets of Android that allow it to be personalized. In this chapter, we’ll take a look at interacting with the information that your Android device can deliver.
For example, did you know that your Android can speak to you? Ever since the Android 1.6 OS release, Android has had built-in text-to-speech (TTS) functionality that could convert text into spoken words. However, it wasn’t until the release of Android 4.2 that this TTS technology was actually tolerable to listen to for long stretches. Earlier releases were robotic and lifeless. The 4.2 release includes a far more natural and less obnoxious voice. ...
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