First of all I'd like to apologize for my bad English and want to tell you a story.
Once upon a time I was walking down the street, reading something from the smartphone screen. I stopped at the corner, waiting for the green light, and stared back my phone. Suddenly my cap was swept away by the rear-view mirror of the city-bus passing by. It was scary a little. A second later I realized that I've just missed a great chance to get to a "better place" because of a facebook post.
Few weeks after that incident I was thinking about the way to avoid such situations in future, remebering all the times I hit other people on the street reading their phones, getting into stinky things, etc. I was searching for solution and finally decided to make an application for smartphones that will save some social-addicted people from dying yong. This app should read incoming feed aloud, freeing eyes and hands of users, making them able to (better) control the surrounding area. It must be very easy to control without paying attention to the screen - swipes, huge buttons, headset control, voice control, whatever. This app should be a media-player, streaming only the favorite music to the ears, that no radio can't perform ever. Also I have found that elder people find that app very useful because they find listening to selected newsfeeds more convenient than filtering an ordinary radio stream for the information they're waiting for. So I have started.
I'm the founder of the Speaking Mind project and I'd like to introduce you my Android application.
I am an IT-specialist with 15 years of experience in various disciplines, grown to CIO and finally decided to work on my own. At this moment this project is my one and only occupation, so I'm working hard to make it the best of the best.
This is a smartphone application that read news from different sources using TTS engine. It plays music, stored at the /Music folder on the SD-card, when there is nothing to read, or time for news ran out. Currently we're offering reading only for different predefined RSS-sources.
Later some plugins will arrive. Facebook, Twitter, SMS, Email and others.
I am looking for the early adopters, who could help me develop great and really useful piece of software. Please, try it, tell me about your experience, your wishes, anything.
-= Attention, please =-
If you somehow got Force Close error, please-please, send a report by pressing a button. It will help us a lot.
-= Thank you =-
Send me any questions to feedback@speind.me.
Thank you one more time, this is the end of this wall of text.
Video demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy6snCcx7Pg
Screenshots here:
Once upon a time I was walking down the street, reading something from the smartphone screen. I stopped at the corner, waiting for the green light, and stared back my phone. Suddenly my cap was swept away by the rear-view mirror of the city-bus passing by. It was scary a little. A second later I realized that I've just missed a great chance to get to a "better place" because of a facebook post.
Few weeks after that incident I was thinking about the way to avoid such situations in future, remebering all the times I hit other people on the street reading their phones, getting into stinky things, etc. I was searching for solution and finally decided to make an application for smartphones that will save some social-addicted people from dying yong. This app should read incoming feed aloud, freeing eyes and hands of users, making them able to (better) control the surrounding area. It must be very easy to control without paying attention to the screen - swipes, huge buttons, headset control, voice control, whatever. This app should be a media-player, streaming only the favorite music to the ears, that no radio can't perform ever. Also I have found that elder people find that app very useful because they find listening to selected newsfeeds more convenient than filtering an ordinary radio stream for the information they're waiting for. So I have started.
I'm the founder of the Speaking Mind project and I'd like to introduce you my Android application.
I am an IT-specialist with 15 years of experience in various disciplines, grown to CIO and finally decided to work on my own. At this moment this project is my one and only occupation, so I'm working hard to make it the best of the best.
This is a smartphone application that read news from different sources using TTS engine. It plays music, stored at the /Music folder on the SD-card, when there is nothing to read, or time for news ran out. Currently we're offering reading only for different predefined RSS-sources.
Later some plugins will arrive. Facebook, Twitter, SMS, Email and others.
I am looking for the early adopters, who could help me develop great and really useful piece of software. Please, try it, tell me about your experience, your wishes, anything.
-= Attention, please =-
If you somehow got Force Close error, please-please, send a report by pressing a button. It will help us a lot.
-= Thank you =-
Send me any questions to feedback@speind.me.
Thank you one more time, this is the end of this wall of text.
Video demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy6snCcx7Pg
Screenshots here:
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