I need to record an audio using inbuilt audio recorder in android and upload that file to server. i recorded an audio using audio recorder intent but i could not able to get the onActivity Result. can anyone help me please? I am using Samsung Galaxy S.
When I preform an activity as you have stated, I always do the higher of the two then the latter, if both return successful then I integrate the two into 1 Activity. Attempt this test:
1: Record and save Audio to SD (to ensure that your recording is present) then
2: (Using a second Activity) Attempt to upload that File to your server.
If the test is successful, integrate the 2 activities. I hope this helps as you have not provided any code to be reviewed.
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I am using MediaStore.Audio.Media.RECORD_SOUND_ACTION to open sound recorder application, I am not able to open application as no default application present, then i install two voice recorder application even though not able to see these application in my chooser intent. I am using following code-
Intent soundRecorderIntent = new Intent(); // create intent
soundRecorderIntent.setAction(MediaStore.Audio.Media.RECORD_SOUND_ACTION); // set action
startActivityForResult(soundRecorderIntent, ACTIVITY_RECORD_SOUND); // start activity
It works well in marshmallow
The code is correct and you've probably found an app that supports the intent by now. But to prevent that others waste their time like I did, here's a quick note:
Most of the currently top rated voice recording apps in the Play Store do not provide the necessary intent filter.
That seemed so unrealistic to me that I doubted my code when it didn't work after having installed the five most popular voice recording apps. But there's a handy manifest viewer app that reveals that their manifests simply do not declare the intent filter. So, as said, the code is correct.
To save you the time from searching for a suitable app, here are two that are invocable:
Audio Recorder from Sony
Samsung Voice Recorder from Samsung
There is no requirement for a voice recorder app to support this Intent action, and apparently your device does not ship with an app that supports this Intent action either. Your code itself seems fine.
If recording is optional to your app, catch the ActivityNotFoundException and tell the user that they do not have a recorder, and perhaps suggest to them that they install one that you test that works, if you can find one.
Otherwise, record the audio yourself, using MediaRecorder.
I'm trying to write camcorder recordings to a network stream, see the following snippet:
ParcelFileDescriptor fd = ParcelFileDescriptor.fromSocket(socket);
this.camera.lock(); // this.camera refers to an android.hardware.Camera instance.
this.camera.unlock();
this.mediaRecorder = new MediaRecorder();
this.mediaRecorder.setCamera(this.camera);
this.mediaRecorder.setAudioSource(MediaRecorder.AudioSource.MIC);
this.mediaRecorder.setVideoSource(MediaRecorder.VideoSource.CAMERA);
this.mediaRecorder.setProfile(CamcorderProfile.get(0, CamcorderProfile.QUALITY_HIGH));
this.mediaRecorder.setOutputFile(fd.getFileDescriptor());
this.mediaRecorder.prepare();
this.mediaRecorder.start();
Then I'm trying to capture it at the other side of the connection: with Socket.getInputStream() I am reading the bytes, and yes, bytes come in. Byte are actually written over the network.
But when try to save it to a file using the FileOutputStream class, and open the file with VLC, it just can't be read.
How can I eventually make the file 'playable', that means, that it is a valid video file?
Edit:
When I use this.mediaRecorder.setOutputFile("/sdcard/out.mp4");, I can open the video file from within Android, and it will play successfully.
However, when I use this.mediaRecorder.setOutputFile(fd.getFileDescriptor());, it won't.
The problem might be due to the fact that you're not setting everything in your camcorder profile.
Instead of this:
this.mediaRecorder.setProfile(CamcorderProfile.get(0, CamcorderProfile.QUALITY_HIGH));
try for example this:
CamcorderProfile profile = CamcorderProfile.get(CamcorderProfile.QUALITY_HIGH);
profile.fileFormat = MediaRecorder.OutputFormat.MPEG_4;
profile.videoCodec = MediaRecorder.VideoEncoder.MPEG_4_SP;
this.mediaRecorder.setProfile(profile);
BTW, are you trying to transmit this video after you finish recording it, or real-time while getting data from your camcorder?
EDIT:
If I remember correctly mpeg4 file format does not have a footer so there should be no need to "wait for the whole file"... BUT: this type of file has a structure which you cannot break if you want to read it. Therefore there might be a problem if you're sending raw bytes of video that has been prepared in mpeg4 file format, and you want to open a file after you've received a random number of those bytes. You can be almost sure that you will not get lucky enough to receive just the right number of bytes of your video.
What I'd advise you to do is:
Check it. For example: send some video to the other side and use some sort of software that allows you to check the file structure. Maybe one of them will tell you whether your file has the correct structure. I can try to link some tools but I haven't tried any of them myself so it's possible you might need to look for something else (if none of them works well enough).
You can try for example this or that.
If step 1. confirmes that your file is being cut in a wrong place then you can try to control it somehow. For example, by informing the receiver of the places of the file, that when used for cutting it, will not result in breaking the structure (will let you open the file).
The alternative would be to try to send some sort of "raw" video frames. And by "raw" I mean some sort of low-level data from camera that you could send and apply the specific codec on the receiving side. I haven't ever tried to do that so you might need to check whether it's even possible (to get this type of data).
Could it be possible now, which we can develop an Android application having the following requirement for its working steps
Automatic receive the call, then
Play some sound out to the caller, wait for DTMF response, then
Record the caller sound (in the case that they permit, by pressing 1 as DTMF response)
Callee can play back the recoreded sound later.
Thank for all answers in advance .....
Hey I am also making same application...for Automatic receive call you need to change Source Code of android. I have done it successfully with froyo 2.2. There is method answerCall(Phone phone) in PhoneUtils.java file with that you can automatic receive call.
I am also searching for DTMF....but till now i didn't get anything which can be helpful....for DTMF decoding....
the first point seems possible. check the state of call if it is ringing state the program can auto attend it for you..you can find more information in this link.
http://www.devlper.com/2010/08/detecting-incoming-and-outgoing-calls-in-android/
http://prasanta-paul.blogspot.com/2010/09/call-control-in-android.html
I've used the voice recognition feature on Android and I love it. It's one of my customers' most praised features. However, the format is somewhat restrictive. You have to call the recognizer intent, have it send the recording for transcription to google, and wait for the text back.
Some of my ideas would require recording the audio within my app and then sending the clip to google for transcription.
Is there any way I can send an audio clip to be processed with speech to text?
I got a solution that is working well to have speech recognizing and audio recording. Here is the link to a simple Android project I created to show the solution's working. Also, I put some print screens inside the project to illustrate the app.
I'm gonna try to explain briefly the approach I used. I combined two features in that project: Google Speech API and Flac recording.
Google Speech API is called through HTTP connections. Mike Pultz gives more details about the API:
"(...) the new [Google] API is a full-duplex streaming API. What this means, is that it actually uses two HTTP connections- one POST request to upload the content as a “live” chunked stream, and a second GET request to access the results, which makes much more sense for longer audio samples, or for streaming audio."
However, this API needs to receive a FLAC sound file to work properly. That makes us to go to the second part: Flac recording
I implemented Flac recording in that project through extracting and adapting some pieces of code and libraries from an open source app called AudioBoo. AudioBoo uses native code to record and play flac format.
Thus, it's possible to record a flac sound, send it to Google Speech API, get the text, and play the sound that was just recorded.
The project I created has the basic principles to make it work and can be improved for specific situations. In order to make it work in a different scenario, it's necessary to get a Google Speech API key, which is obtained by being part of Google Chromium-dev group. I left one key in that project just to show it's working, but I'll remove it eventually. If someone needs more information about it, let me know cause I'm not able to put more than 2 links in this post.
Unfortunately not at this time. The only interface currently supported by Android's voice recognition service is the RecognizerIntent, which doesn't allow you to provide your own sound data.
If this is something you'd like to see, file a feature request at http://b.android.com. This is also tangentially related to existing issue 4541.
As far as I know there is still no way to directly send an audio clip to Google for transcription. However, Froyo (API level 8) introduced the SpeechRecognizer class, which provides direct access to the speech recognition service. So, for example, you can start playback of an audio clip and have your Activity start the speech recognizer listening in the background, which will return results after completion to a user-defined listener callback method.
The following sample code should be defined within an Activity since SpeechRecognizer's methods must be run in the main application thread. Also you will need to add the RECORD_AUDIO permission to your AndroidManifest.xml.
boolean available = SpeechRecognizer.isRecognitionAvailable(this);
if (available) {
SpeechRecognizer sr = SpeechRecognizer.createSpeechRecognizer(this);
sr.setRecognitionListener(new RecognitionListener() {
#Override
public void onResults(Bundle results) {
// process results here
}
// define your other overloaded listener methods here
});
Intent intent = new Intent(RecognizerIntent.ACTION_RECOGNIZE_SPEECH);
// the following appears to be a requirement, but can be a "dummy" value
intent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_CALLING_PACKAGE, "com.dummy");
// define any other intent extras you want
// start playback of audio clip here
// this will start the speech recognizer service in the background
// without starting a separate activity
sr.startListening(intent);
}
You can also define your own speech recognition service by extending RecognitionService, but that is beyond the scope of this answer :)
I am trying to build an Android Service that should get notified when the user starts playing an MP3. I checked LogCat when I start playing a song and saw that the following Intent is logged:
Intent { act=com.android.music.PLAYBACK_VIEWER flg=0x4000000 cmp=com.android.music/.MediaPlaybackActivity }
I couldn't figure out how to write an IntentFilter to let my Service know that this event has occurred and let me know the name of the song that will be played. I searched Android reference but could not find anything on PLAYBACK_VIEWER.
Thanks,
C
I would do neither. First, none of this is part of the SDK and so may change at any point. Second, this will only work for the built-in media player application, not any third-party or OEM-supplied media players, and I expect more people to gravitate to those.