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Is it possible to use alternate speech input? (Future wise)

HermelijnHermelijn Member
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Maybe an odd idea/suggestion, but our situation is odd :wink: 

We ordered our Homey a year ago. Because of my disabled wife I saw a lot of possibilities for her (besides the huge toy factor for me :smiley: ). This week we finally got our Homey like a lot of other people and believe me, it's an awesome product! 
However, my wives voice has deteriorated and Homey has a hard time even hearing her, let alone understand her.

So, my idea is when the bluetooth module will be available, is there a possibility to use a tiny clip on bluetooth microphone as alternate speech input? Of not, is it really hard to implement?

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  • HansieNLHansieNL Member
    Good idea.
  • bvdbosbvdbos Member
    @Hermelijn: you can turn of the microphone on Homey and use the one on the android-app. That should work after some testing what's the best distance to your phone...
  • HermelijnHermelijn Member
    @BasVanDenBosch , true but handeling a phone or a tablet when your hands don't work is not a real option.  Nor is it an option to have it lay on your chest all day.
    I already thought of an tablet "clamp" device but it's rather expensive and she has already enough of thise hanging on the side of her bed.

    Hence my thought of a tiny clip on bluetooth mic only weighing a couple of grams and at the price of a couple of euro's (aliexpess?)

    But I do appreciate thinking with us :smiley: ! KUDOOS! :wink: 

  • bvdbosbvdbos Member
    A bluetooth microphone connecting to the tablet/phone (I presume this works with the android app)? Speech recognition is still not great with Homey... Have to go to the shop by car, let mesee if bluetooth works :smile: 
  • HermelijnHermelijn Member
    edited April 2016
    Haha :smile: , but  my original thought was to connect the bluetooth mic to homey directly (when the module is activated) instead of relaying it through the app runnning on another device. :wink: 

    (bluetooth isn't working now at the moment yet...)
  • bvdbosbvdbos Member
    Speech recognition works much better on my phone (though only English for now) so I would definitely go that way if I were you... Didn't seem to get my carkit working for the Homey-app though... Perhaps other bluetooth devices do work...
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