SanctimoniousApe

@SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluto's Orbit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We will call it a planet if we plan it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the Google Minis are hit or miss for us a lot, too. I don’t generally have the keyword activation switched on with my phone, but was going to activate it if need be for this. I’ve got a Bluetooth headset with very good background noise cancellation (according to those I’ve spoken to on the phone), so I’m hoping/assuming that will help it understand me more reliably, and that Assistant activation via its button will obviate the need for activating keyword activation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Replying to my own post in case anyone’s following this (still too new to Lemmy to know if that’s a thing - guess I’ll look into it after this).

  Apparently, Moto may be working on something that fills this need. The promo video in this article only demonstrates things I think Google Assistant might already be capable of (or maybe slightly more), but the article states what they’re working on involves using apps on your phone to do things rather than just being a microphone and speaker for stuff that actually happens mostly on Google’s servers. Crossing my fingers that includes doing what I want rather than just being focused on buying things as demonstrated in the teaser video.

  In the meantime, I’ve stumbled across the fact that Google’s built-in TalkBack feature has support for keyboard shortcuts. This likely means I can use a small handheld Bluetooth game controller along with an app to map the buttons to the appropriate key presses in order to move around the screen, and thus control the Android device without looking at or touching it. I’ll likely test this next weekend & report back if anyone’s interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gen z gorillas⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite a few of them, actually - as well as remakes, the more recent of which are actually pretty good & you shouldn’t limit yourself to just one if that’s all you’ve seen.

  😛

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gen z gorillas⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, according to sources like The Jungle Book and The Lion King, humans aren’t the only ones… 🤪

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a few Google Home Minis, and so far as I know they are the same thing - just rebranded. It’s basically the same thing as Google Assistant built into every Google-approved/equipped (meaning it has their full suite of apps pre-installed) device. They’re just so limited. I know if no way to get them to read Lemmy posts as I’m my added second example.

  I also thought of another use case for what I’m after that might be more universally applicable and easily understood. Imagine someone doing some relatively mindless menial job such as working an assembly line, janitorial work, chauffer - something where your mind is relatively unoccupied, but you’re not free to look at and/or touch your device (whether it be due to practicality, or job rules). While doing that job, I want to be able to have the device read and interact with something of interest to me at that moment, rather than just relying on podcasts with predefined content. Kind of like having someone next to me doing all the interfacing between me and the device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I wouldn’t just jump in without looking first. If I can’t find a way to do this, then I’m definitely gonna have to take a trip to the nearest Apple Store, though. Thanks very much for the input!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  iOS will open your Lemmy client, start reading posts to you aloud, and go into a post of interest upon command without you ever looking at or touching the screen (using my newer example that I added to the OP)? I’m seriously going to have to look into getting an iDevice of some sort if so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine someone blind who also has Parkinson’s - they can’t see to use Voice Access, and they can’t control their hands well enough to interact with the screen physically in a reliable manner. You can’t actually use those two accessibility features together - they are mutually exclusive in that they require you either be able to see the screen, OR you must be able to interact with it physically as it reads out what you’re touching. Why is there no way to interact entirely verbally?

• Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)?
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