tom4_u | # 1 | 2010-03-17, 08:55 | Report

Is it possible to have voice tags for contacts?
like when some one calls you ,n900 just calls out the name of the contact

cashclientel | # 2 | 2010-03-17, 09:27 | Report

No. i've been southampton but i've never been to scumthorpe

cortina61 | # 3 | 2010-03-17, 09:29 | Report

just something else this amazing new device cant do! Loved that feature in the good old days......

tom4_u | # 4 | 2010-03-17, 10:42 | Report

Can we expect this feature to be added in the future updates? i comes handy when u r driving with ur n900 connected to the bluetooth car kit and u can knw who is calling u without looking into the phones screen

jaem | # 5 | 2010-03-17, 11:24 | Report

Well, unless cashclientel elaborates, or cites something, I don't put much stock in it being impossible. However, no, it's not a currently available feature. I poked around a bit in the telephony subsystem (DBus) when I was working on my bluetooth bracelet alerts (another thread - search if you're curious), but I can't remember if it broadcasts DBus signals on incoming calls or not. If it does, and includes identifiable caller info, then one could write a little daemon to do that, I would think.

Update: com.nokia.csd.call looks like it might be of some use. If anyone feels like poking at DBus, please do - I probably won't have time.

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Last edited by jaem; 2010-03-17 at 11:41. Reason: new info

davedap | # 6 | 2010-03-17, 11:55 | Report

miss this feature loads myself!!!

jaem | # 7 | 2010-03-17, 12:11 | Report

Okay, I did a bit of digging, and I think this should be quite doable. I have a lot on my plate, though, so while I'll try to keep tabs on this, don't count on me actually implementing it.
Here's how we could do it:
- Use the dbus-scripts package (currently in -devel; standard caveats apply)
- Listen on the "Coming" signal, as per the wiki page.
- That will give us the caller number. From there, we need to cross reference it with the address book, which should be doable as well, I would think. How one would do that, I don't know off the top of my head.
- Use espeak/flite/festival/etc to speak the caller name as listed by the address book

That should work, and it shouldn't be too tricky, I think. To the OP, and others, though, keep in mind that dbus-scripts isn't stable yet, so even if someone scripts this up tomorrow, I can't advise using it yet.

I hope this helps

Thanks to Matan, in this post, for pointing me in the right direction.

jaem | # 8 | 2010-03-19, 13:57 | Report

It actually looks easier than I thought. The one catch is that I don't have a SIM card for my phone, so I'll have to borrow one. Once I can do so, for testing, I think I can whip up a script or two that will speak the phone number fairly easily. Would this be useful to people?

Matan | # 9 | 2010-03-19, 14:04 | Report

See also this thread if you wish to make sounds while a call is incoming:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=45723