Speaking the time

Watchapp/Face Developers Corner
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I hadn’t seen many watchfaces or apps that took advantage of the recent Speaker features, so I created a new watchface that speaks the time when the tap or wrist-flick gesture is detected. The Quiet Mode is honored, and flicking your wrist twice cancels the speaking if it was the equivalent of a mistaken butt dial.

My motivation was to push the envelope and see if I could optimize the Pebble Time 2 to sound like a modern non-computer voice. The first iteration sounded like a Macintosh computer from the 1980s, and had to work hard to get it to sound better. The audio resources are pretty big, but do they fit in the limited Pebble memory.

There are volume and spoken-format customizable settings, as well as a dozen other custom settings for colors, battery, vibrations, bluetooth, disconnections, date format.

The watchface is called Big Talk (I know - I’m not very original with watchface or app names).

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Feature Request: A switch to disable the flick wrist to activate. A tap to activate is best for me. Also, thank you you keeping the “QUIET TIME” text in place of Date like in your Big Watch.

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Hi Dennis, I don’t think I can differentiate between the tap-vs-flick gesture. The Pebble API just has a mechanism to be notified of an event (a call to the function “accel_tap_service_subscribe”). Good idea though! And I recall your request for “QUIET TIME” in the past. :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the quick reply, my old friend, I always thought that your “QUIET TIME” and “DISCONNECTED” text should be standard on all Pebble watchfaces.