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Re: A voice recorder

 

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Edouard Richard <vied12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I'm Edouard, a french student of an information technology high school for
> 2 years.
> With a friend, we have done a plugin 'Voice note' for Tomboy that create an
> ogg file named with the id of the note (ex :
> 9dabc835-3ae2-49a1-802c-cb47dc407ccd.ogg).
> I told myself that this feature would be even more useful on a mobile
> device.
> So I believe that it is time for Tomdroid to be able to record voice.
>

Hi Edouard,

That's interesting, let us know how it goes! I wonder how friendly is
android's API regarding recording and if the speech-to-text capabilities are
available for non-google apps.


>
> Tomdroid will not work differently, audio files will be stored in the
> "tomdroid" directory.
> I wonder if it would better I add a new column on the table of database or
> simply verify at the opening of a note if an audio file with the same name
> exists in the "tomdroid" directory.
>

For now, I would say verify the presence of the file but be aware that this
will change so try to encapsulate so that changing it will be easy.

Good luck and keep us posted!

p.s.: Edouard also posted a branch with a note search bar that seems pretty
complete. Interested? Check:
https://code.launchpad.net/~vied12/tomdroid/searchbar-on-0.3
-- 
Olivier Bilodeau <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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