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Pippin friendica
Can any of you suggest an Android app (available on F-Droid would be nice, but on Google Play if needed) that can receive audio from a bluetooth headset and relay it through the phone's built-in speaker? I've tried several that will take audio from the phone's mic and play it through a bluetooth headset, obviously intended as hearing aids, but have not found one that works the other way round. (I'm trying to work out a "speaking aid" type arrangement, so I can make myself heard from inside my Power Ranger helmet.)
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Pippin friendica
There's this simple app on F-Droid which would do the job nicely if only I could select taking audio input from bluetooth instead of the built-in mic. But of all the many apps out there that do this kind of thing, I've yet to find one where the developer thought to make "audio source" selectable. Any ideas? I have absolutely no knowledge of Android programming or Android dev tools.
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Pippin friendica
Huh, apparently (see other comments) it's not possible on un-rooted Android for some reason (although I'm finding it hard to see how it could be possible to read from bluetooth mic and write to on-board speakers but not be able to do both at once, but then I know nothing about the APIs involved). So, now I need other ideas for how to amplify my voice. I could put a headset in the helmet and then if I want to talk to someone I could just phone them and their phone could be the speaker, but that seems... unnecessarily complicated. I mean, it should work. But holding a phone call open just to talk to someone right in front of me? Ugh. Or I could put a whole phone inside my helmet with the mic near my mouth and use an external bluetooth speaker. But then how would I control the phone? Ugh, I don't know. I was hoping to be able to rig something up quickly with stuff I've already got before next weekend but I'm guessing I should forget going to that particular event after all, oh well. Any ideas?
Bryan Haskin • mastodon (AP)
I am not sure if that is possible with android's audio pipeline
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Bryan Haskin • mastodon (AP)
little bit of research says it's not possible on stock android and might be possible with a rooted device/custom rom.
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Pippin friendica
@Bryan Haskin Really? That's very surprising, but it would explain the lack of apps that do that. Thank you. Well, there goes that idea. Hmm.
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