I'm Deaf and curious if there is the possibility to point the iPhone toward a speaker and see its text on the screen?
Not sure if iOS10 comes with that Voice to Text functionality or if an external app is required for this?
Thanks for any suggestions!
As developer's point of view in ios 10 there is speech.framework which can use to convert voice to text
for reference you can refer speech.framework
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I have had this question for a long time and I tried to search it in iOS 10 APIs but I couldn't find any, if anyone knows the corresponding APIs, please help here.
So I have an iOS custom keyboard for Mandarin and it requires selecting word after some inputs.
Google's custom keyboard GBoard now supports Simplified Chinese and it works with iPad Pro Smart Keyboard and it will display a list of candidate words right below the cursor as shown in this video.
GBoard Simplified Chinese Input
But I couldn't find the corresponding API to make this happen for my own custom keyboard extension.
So 2 questions here:
Is it doable now to make a custom keyboard extension work for external physical bluetooth keyboard, and how? Not iPad Pro Smart Keyboard but generally using Apple bluetooth keyboard with say an iPad Air.
If #1 it not doable now, how can I make my custom keyboard work like GBoard so that when the user types some english chars, the candidate list will appear right below the cursor and then use arrow keys to navigate and enter to input.
Much appreciated.
I understand there are 1127 apps about custom emoji keyboard on App Store. Since I wish to not put the exact app idea here, I will give an example.
If I wish to build a custom keyboard with custom emojis, is it actually possible? I don't only mean if that is possible technically. I'm also asking if Apple actually allow it?
I tried doing my research and some sites say, they only allow emojis that are built into the phone and not custom.
Again, I don't want to make a chat app where my emojis will be useable. I want to make a keyboard app and if both users have the keyboard, the emojis will work perfectly. The keyboard should be useable throughout iOS environment.
Is this possible and does Apple allow it?
If yes, I would really appreciate some starting point guidelines since I'm a VERY new to iOS.
Thank you!
No its not possible:The problem which will arise is that you would have to add your emoji by sending a request to http://unicode.org/consortium/consort.html.
This is the institute will accept/reject new emojis supported by ios and andriod.
Actually the emojis are unicode characters that are decoded by os.So if you try to add a unicode by yourself that will not be decoded by os.
Your unicode characters can be decoded if you use them in an app not in keyboard extension.Than your app can decode it.e.g say {186abjd} = {your image} than for decoding you can check the string for {186abjd} if that text is found replace it by your image.Remember that this can't be an emoji as emoji are text and you cannot use text.
Recently, I have installed Twilight on my Android phone. Apparently is adds a color tone effect on the screen. Here are two screen shots taken from PlayStore.
Now my question is that is there a way to develop similar system display tone color set up application in iOS?
It is not possible as Apple restrict the developers to edit home screen. There are very limited features that we can access like Calendar, Gallery, etc. The above screenshot your are showing is related to Widget but there are no Widget concept in iOS.
Yes, it is certainly possible and I use an app that does this.
Have a look at https://github.com/anthonya1999/GoodNight, It's even open sourced.
However an app like this will most likely be denied from the App Store, but never the less it is possible.
Night Shift is supposed to bring something like this in iOS 9.3, though not to that extent.
I don't know of any public API that would allow an application to change that kind of parameter system-wise, though. Maybe in the Accessibility framework, but that would restrict it to app-wise, not system-wise.
I am developing an app for ipad in which i want to add functionality as below:-
When user'll tap on play button Text to speech will start to play that Text at that time, that word will be highlighted as they are being read.
I know about in built feature of iOS but i want to do it programatically.
I searched a lot and got as below:
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
If anyone know any API or any inbuilt framework. Let me know.
Appreciate your time.
You can make use of the brilliant text-to-speech library inbuilt with iOS 7 onwards called AVSpeechSynthesizer.
You can control the speech as well as get notifications of it's progress using the AVSpeechSynthesizer delegate methods. The method that should help you achieve your desired functionality should be the
speechSynthesizer:willSpeakRangeOfSpeechString:utterance: method.
Have a look at the AVSpeechSynthesizer as well as the AVSpeechSynthesizerDelegate API reference.
This post by Matt Thompson on NSHipster features the exact same functionality with an example.
I've read a lot of topics about developing a custom keyboard for iOS and it's clear that it is impossible to build a system-wide alternative keyboard.
But I still try to understand how Emoji keyboard(the emoticons additional layer) could make it possible and it is an official app on AppStore (that means it passes Apple approval!).
Note that their keyboard, once installed, can be added in Keyboard section in Settings!
Thanks for help
Emoji apps enable a by-default-disabled keyboard built into iOS. If I recall correctly, it's enabled by default in certain regions (Japan) but disabled in most places. So they aren't adding a new keyboard, just revealing one that's already there.
edit: ... and here's how they do it
The Emoji Icons are a stored in the private use area of unicode. They won't look any good on a different device than an iPhone/iPad, this is Apple specific.
The app is just to enable the keyboard. You can do it yourself: Making An Emoji Enabeling App.
Have a look at The truth about iPhone Emoji, which sheds some light on the whole topic.