By Stéphane Doyon <sdoyon@google.com>
Copyright © 2009 Google Inc. Google Code project page: http://talkingrssreader.googlecode.com
Talking RSS Reader fetches a feed of articles from Google Reader and shows articles one by one, in reverse chronological order.
It begins reading each article out loud as soon as it is displayed. The sentence currently being spoken is colored in green.
Speech can be interrupted and restarted by pressing the CALL button.
To move to the previous or next sentence, spin the trackball up or down while the app is talking.
If the text is scrolled, speech will pick up at the first full sentence from the top of the screen.
Links can be selected with the finger, or trackball when the app is not talking. Clicking a link launches the browser, which does not talk.
You can have sentences spoken one at a time by holding the CALL button and spinning the trackball up or down.
The Next and Prev article buttons are located at the bottom corners of the screen, where they can easily be tapped without looking. Each article is marked as read after you click Next.
If you are a first time user of
Google Reader,
you may need to initialize your account by going to
http://google.com/reader.
Talking RSS Reader requires network connectivity.
Thanks to GP from LivelyBlue.com for the beautiful icon.
Thanks to Robert Shield for assistance testing the UI, layout advice, javascript hints and more. Thanks to Roger Tawa for useful discussions about Android. Thanks to Siggi Asgeirsson for encouragement, in particular for the javascript scroll tracking. All errors are nevertheless my own.
This application contains a modified version of the text-to-sppeech library for Android from the Eyes-Free project.
This application also uses the HTMLParser library.