Voice Notify was a tools app developed by Pilot_51. It was removed from Google Play Jan 21, 2019 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Voice Notify had been downloaded 220 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Voice Notify was rated 4.25 out of 5 stars, based on 3.1 thousand ratings.
App Information
Voice Notify was free to download. The APK download size was 466.30 kB. The last available version was 1.1.3. The last update was on April 22, 2018.
Technical Requirements
Voice Notify required Android 4.3+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play February 2011.
Description
Voice Notify announces status bar notification messages using Text-To-Speech (TTS) so you don't need to look at the screen to know what a notification says.
UPDATE NOTICE: Google [threatened to make] a change to policy requiring VN to stop using the Accessibility service. It was replaced with the Notification Listener service in v1.1.0. This resulted in some changes that may not be desired, such as the removal of the toast option or speaking every notification update instead of only new notifications. I cannot guarantee that everything will be restored in the future. In the meantime, if you don't like v1.1.x, I would suggest leaving detailed feedback and sideloading v1.0.12 from GitHub to restore the old functionality and behavior.
FEATURES: *Widget to suspend VN *Customizable TTS message *Limit length of spoken message *Replace text to be spoken *Ignore specific apps or notifications containing defined text *Choice of TTS audio stream *Choice of speaking when screen or headset is on or off, or while in silent/vibrate mode (Note: Due to API limitations, a headset that is connected when the VN service starts will need to be reconnected for VN to see the current state; also all Bluetooth devices are detected the same, headset or not) *Quiet Time *Shake-to-silence *Custom delay of TTS after notification *Repeat notifications at custom interval while screen off *Notification log *Post a test notification
VN operates through Android's Notification Listener service and must be enabled in the Notification Access settings. Shortcuts are provided in the configuration screen to open the Notification Access and TTS settings.
PERMISSIONS: Bluetooth - Required to detect whether Bluetooth headset is connected. Vibrate - Required for Test feature while phone is in vibrate mode. Modify Audio Settings - Required for improved wired headset detection. Read Phone State - Required to interrupt TTS if a phone call becomes active.
ABOUT AUDIO STREAM OPTION: Behavior of audio streams may vary by device or Android version, so I advise doing your own testing to determine which stream is right for you. The Media stream (default) should be good for most people.
DISCLAIMER: Voice Notify developers are not responsible for the notifications that are announced. It is up to you to configure VN or your device, or not use VN, to prevent unwanted announcing of notifications.
PROBLEMS: Please email me or submit any issues at: https://github.com/pilot51/voicenotify/issues If necessary, you can sideload any version from the releases section on GitHub: https://github.com/pilot51/voicenotify/releases
SOURCE CODE: VN is open source under the Apache License. https://github.com/pilot51/voicenotify Code contributor details can be found at https://github.com/pilot51/voicenotify/graphs/contributors
TRANSLATIONS: Translation is crowdsourced at http://getlocalization.com/voicenotify. If for any reason you can't or don't want to use Get Localization, you can always email me or contribute directly to the GitHub project. Current languages: English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
A special thank you to all the developers and translators who donated their time and expertise to make Voice Notify better!
Recent changes: v1.1.3 [2018-04-23] *Ignore group summary notifications which were causing excessive repeating *Hopefully squash all the bugs with ignore reasons in log *Support for switching suspend on or off from Tasker/Locale/Llama (Intent actions: voicenotify.widget.ON, voicenotify.widget.OFF) *Add Malay and Polish translations, update others *Crash fixes *Other minor fixes and improvements
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★★★★★
It's a brilliant app. It has lots of customisation settings and has worked as expected for me. For instance, I've successfully set the app to ignore messages from certain WhatsApp group chats. I've used this app with a Galaxy S6, Pixel 2XL, Z2 Plus and Oneplus 6t. I've only used the app for Bluetooth purposes in two cars for handsfree alerts. It's worked dependably well in all situations. The only issue I have is that I cannot find a way (if there is a way) to stop the app reading the numbers of people who I already have in my contacts book. Other apps of this type have this function.
★★★★★
Absolute necessity if you'd like to be told about your appointments and get your text messages without having to pick up the phone especially while driving. Works great
★★★★★
Great app, but regularly stops working for no apparent reason. Service still running, volume up, TTS active, but no speech even with test notification until after a reboot. Is there a better way to recover? Android 7 on HTC 10.
★★☆☆☆
Some times it reminds me every unread notification, especially in the morning when I hadn't touched my phone for a longer time. So it's annoying: Facebook Facebook Facebook like 10times..
★★☆☆☆
You took a brilliantly easy to use application and turned it into a pile of complicated junk. I can't get it to do what the old app did effortlessly. Way too complicated now. I want the old version back!!
★★☆☆☆
OK when it works - worked initially for some apps but missed notifications for others - screen to enable disable apps missing an un -check all feature making it very tedious to select only a handful of apps
★★☆☆☆
Volume very low.... even all my volume settings maximum
★★☆☆☆
I loved this application until recently update! Messages are not being read
as they were on bluetooth headset wich is the reason I downloaded the
application. Will change review when it works as before.
★★☆☆☆
Lots of options, but it wouldn't read notifications from Google Calendar. I enabled the notifications for the calendar.
Technologies used by Voice Notify
Voice Notify is requesting 4 permissions and is using 2 libraries.
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