Application Brainpool
hello friends,
at the moment we are building up a brainpool for applications which could be useful, cool or funny.
here is a start:
- BALLOON - blow into the mic to blow up virtual balloons. make a contest who pops the balloon the fastest way.
- GLIDER - a game where a glider flyes through a tunnel which has spikes on top and bottom. move the glider up by blowing into the mic. move him down by not blowing.
- DTMF DECODER - decode dtmf sounds with your ipod/iphone. you often hear this sounds in movies or somewhere else. with this app, you can find out which number was dialed or which message was sent.
- VISUAL AUDIO ALARM - a app mainly for deaf ppl. select a volume preset. if there is a sound louder then this preset. the display will flash.
- VOICE RECORDER/REMINDER/DICTAPHONE - talk your messages or letters on the road into your ipod/iphone. then have the mp3 stored locally on the device, or select a email to send the mp3 over wifi or gsm. you could send it to your webblog or your secretary. your letter will be typed, printed and ready for you to sign when you enter the office.
- BAD DAY - blow in the mic to move rain clouds away from the screen. the little computer ppl in this game dont like it to get wet. (thanks mason)
- KARAOKE - a singstar/taptap clone/mix. (thanks Gianni)
- SING TRAINER / iCapella - load your notelines (midi) and practice them singing at perfect timing and pitch. see the “wrong” notes and work on them to be a better singer. (thanks JLA)
- FLUTE/TRUMPET - blow into the mic and press buttons to make noises. (thanks Daniel)
- METRONOM - use the ipod builtin klick-speaker as a metronom klicker.
- CLAPPER - a power saving daemon who switches off the screen (thanks deltaspecops) (the power consumption of the daemon may be bigger than the power saving)
- VOICE (UN)LOCK - unlock or lock your ipod with your voice (thanks Conner)
- VOICE LAUNCHER - a app launcher daemon. say what you want, and the app starts. (we need a star-trek skin for this. ;-))
- BPM METER - play any music, and the ipod tells you the bpm of it. (thanks Zoega)
- VOICE CODER - encrypt your telephone conversation. (thanks cyclonefr)
- (please tell us YOUR ideas, how we could make your mic even more valuable)
Thank You!
Your Touchmods Team
April 7, 2008 at 8:18 pm
wow
these ideas are genius
too bad i can’t code
i sure can be a part of testing though
April 7, 2008 at 9:16 pm
I can’t do nothing, either as far as coding is concerned, but agree with you Murph!
Congratulations to the Team!!!
April 7, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Wow I’m really digging the first two games…
=D
April 7, 2008 at 10:20 pm
a story where its a rainy day and you blow the clouds out of the sky as quick as possible so nobody gets wet
April 7, 2008 at 11:00 pm
I Like the DTMF decoder, especially if it could decode more than DTMf, like fire tones or CTCSS tones for us hams. Or even, and audio TNC for amateur radio like AGWPE. Too bad I can’t get my iphone toolchain to work.
April 7, 2008 at 11:21 pm
I love your ideas!!!
What about a karaoke game? Wouldn’t that be fun? I’m thinking of something like taptap revolution where people could create a database of soundtracks so then people could sing along… Kinda like a mix between singstar and taptap revolution…
I am not a coder so i am not even sure if it’s possible but as Murph said i am willing to beta test it!!!
I am looking forward to it!!!
April 8, 2008 at 2:28 am
I like the voice recorder idea to record lectures or interviews.
April 8, 2008 at 3:54 am
How about a trumpet/flute type game? Where you have to blow into the mic and press buttons to make noises.
April 8, 2008 at 4:16 am
@ Daniel.
Thats a very cool idea. I cant wait for touch studio to come out so we can start using our mics to record our own music, or bootleg a concert lol. I like the last idea. I would like something other than voice notes (although Im greatful for Voice Notes) to record lectures, and the other features. Any progress on implementing any of the requested features for future sip voip releases.
April 8, 2008 at 4:41 am
Ok well i really dont know if this is possible, but i just got my mic today and i was wondering “why do i need these head phones?”. So i was just playing around with my itouch and i found that in the clock application that there are little alarms that can actually be heard from the itouch. So do you think that it is possible to some how make the voices of the people you are talking to over Sip-Voip come out of the “invisible speakers”? Yeah so just wondering. Get back to me on that if there is a way. Thanks
April 8, 2008 at 4:43 am
Also i forgot to say your ideas at the top there are going to be pretty sweet if they come out. Good job touchmods team and i enjoy the new mic! =)
April 8, 2008 at 5:59 am
@Nick
The tiny speaker that the ipod has is only for like (tap, tock, tick) noises. It cant be used for music, or voices, as far as i know. I just dont think it has the capability. Sorry, @Raleigh has been working on a speaker set up, using the tiny speakers that you get out of say a pair of headphones.
April 8, 2008 at 6:14 am
How about something that works like the Jott service that would recieve your emailed recordings and send them as email for you. Make an application deal with Jott networks.
How about voice recognition, wherin you can pre record commands that then play that media source to control the music player. Simple commands like play, pause, next would even be great, especially for using the ipod regularly like snowboarding or biking, great way to control the ipod in the pocket if you have the headset mic.
April 8, 2008 at 6:52 am
@Nick - we are working to bring the builtin speaker to live as a sip-voip ringtone for the ipod.
April 8, 2008 at 6:54 am
how about a clapper, clap on clap off, when off you could just kill the screen to save power.
April 8, 2008 at 12:11 pm
is it too big, to think about text recognition?
April 8, 2008 at 12:28 pm
@touchmods- really about the builtin speaker? That would be soo freaking cool!!
ALSO A FLUTE, TRUMPET, BLOWING INSTRUMENT GAME WOULD BE AMAZING! I COULD IMAGINE IT NOW.
Hold the iPod towards you mouth facing on in angle down and Hold or press the keys of the instrument and u blow in varies streghts!
April 8, 2008 at 1:50 pm
@deltaspecops: the problem with using a clapper to save power is that the power it takes to run the audio loops that listen for mic input would drain the battery extremely fast.
@Gianni : I actually had most of the code down for a game similar to this on the iphone…it used a musical staff, and the notes (via a midi file) would go across the screen…it would detect what pitch you are singing, and you had to sing the right note to score. But I was never able to get both output and input working at the same time. I thought about doing an “iCapella” version (i.e. without musical accompaniment), but decided that would be no fun, and just ended up putting the graphics in Funiculus.
April 8, 2008 at 2:23 pm
@JLA: cool, pls keep us informed. we would be happy to host the finished app in our repository.
if it is “only” acapella, it could be a useful training tool for singer. “sing trainer” to see how perfect they can sing or hold a note.
April 8, 2008 at 2:29 pm
JLA, if you could do that it would have been amazing. Maybe someday there will be a rockband game over wifi with that, but I’m just dreaming
April 8, 2008 at 4:50 pm
@ Touchmods:
1. a external Speaker for iPod Touch would be awesome…
2. If you need help with Icons, mrn, ask me im still learning to improve the ways to make even better Icon’s
Regards Albert
April 8, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Voice lock and unlock for iPod.
April 8, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Regarding Voice Unlock and Voice Launcher we can use mel-cepstral coeffs with a basic DTW algorithm. For more complicated dictation systems we would need to look at Julius or the HTK toolkit:
http://julius.sourceforge.jp/en_index.php?q=en/index.html
http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/
Does anybody have an idea how well could those tools perform on a pocket machine with a tiny ARM proc and some limited MBs? In the worst case we can go for Distributed Speech Recognition:
http://www.telecom.tuc.gr/~perak/speech/
April 8, 2008 at 10:42 pm
I take it you decided not to release the source code for recfile and playfile
April 8, 2008 at 11:02 pm
It would be cool to have an app that “listens” to a song through the mic or played on the ipod and gives me the BPM (beats per minute). It’s much needed when I’m rehearsing with the band.
April 8, 2008 at 11:44 pm
i would love a voice coder for Iphone when u r on call
April 9, 2008 at 2:55 am
@touchmods. you’ve brought up julius before which notes your belief that speech recog is possible with the ARM. my windows mobile phone has simplistic commands. what the public will expect is a much larger vocabulary. the best models still rely on server-side processing .
April 9, 2008 at 5:29 am
@deeky: recfile is part of the command-line touchstudio:
http://touchmods.wordpress.com/code/
@justit: yes, agree. this is why we also mention the DSR case. Just for the case
@ Zoega, cyclonefr: nice ideas!!!
April 9, 2008 at 6:40 am
Make a mic that doubles as speakers, two small ones on either side, stereo style, and make it the length of the ipod and the same with as the mic… and if you were really smart you would make a case like the agent18 or any of the clear cases they sell and package it to fit the mic/speaker set attached to the ipod and have a dock connector throughput on the bottom.. A case with speakers and a mic, it would be incredible….
April 9, 2008 at 6:49 am
also it would need an audio jack throughput as well… the case part is just an idea that i like and think would be great and sell well too, but the speakers addition to the mic is a huge step at this point, everyone is looming for portable speakers, hell i used an iphone for that exact reason without activation until the 32gb touch came along, but i will go back when the 32 iphone comes out thats how huge the speakers are for me ( i like the camera and mic too) but really the speakers are the deal maker, if you offered a mic speaker combo in a sleek form fitting flush design (the case would be incredible too) I would be sold sold sold
April 9, 2008 at 9:17 pm
if anyone is interested in an external speaker, i’m working on one right now. its i’m thinking of velcroing it to the back of the touch. to control volume i’m going to use a combination of the Griffin SmartShare headphones slplitter and the Touchmods volume hack.
i plan to turn up the volume with the hack and so i can hear the ringtone when it plays, and then use the splitter to turn down the volume when i want to take a call or listen to music
any questions?
April 9, 2008 at 9:21 pm
also, what about a program that can sample a song that’s playing in your surroundings then maybe have it bring you to the song’s page on the itunes music store or just give you the lyrics.
April 9, 2008 at 10:07 pm
@raleigh
YAAAAA!!!! I always wanted this. Never thought of it tho! Nice
April 9, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Raleigh, Erica Saudan tried to do this, but she didn’t want to pay thousands of dollars for a music recgognition program, so she quit work on it.
April 9, 2008 at 11:38 pm
@KARAOKE
Why not port UltraStar:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultrastar-mac/
April 9, 2008 at 11:44 pm
@daniel
isn’t there some free music recognition program or website available?
April 10, 2008 at 2:27 am
I’m not sure, I just heard that that’s why she stopped working on it.
April 10, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I don’t mean to be an ass, but why would a deaf person have an iphone or itouch?
April 10, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Blow into the mic and the ipod/iphone says you how your breath smells (halitosis). Another application could be an alcoholometer.
(Sorry for my bad english, i am a german!!!)
April 10, 2008 at 8:10 pm
it means we can start to collect donations again
btw any gui developers around for TouchStudio?
April 10, 2008 at 8:47 pm
@Nick; No, unfortunately the built-in “speaker” of the Touch is just a simple piezo, which can produce no better sounds than the digital music watches did already 20 yrs ago (and still Casio does nowadays). Simply, the piezo can NOT reproduce frequencies that are necessary for speech reproduction, they can only “beep”. A much better solution would be to use the “ringtone” speaker of a mobile phone, that is anyway really small, but would be much more effective, given the mobile can also play mp3 or mid as ring-tones. We have some PSP speaker, let’s see how they behave
Of course, it does mean that is is doable in mass production, just as a proof-of-concept hack!
April 11, 2008 at 3:56 am
Bob,
Not a bad question. Being 80% deaf, I have BOTH an ipod touch and an iphone. I was really gratefull when hackers came up with volume boost patches. Yes, I have the volume ALL the way up, and have had people in the coffee shop ask me to turn it DOWN, even tho I was wearing a BT headset!
So the question was legit, BTW I am the hacker who came up with the iVoice III mic mod.
Earl
April 11, 2008 at 7:56 am
..sorry, the last sentence in our last comment should be: “..it does NOT mean that IT is EASILY doable in mass production..”
April 11, 2008 at 8:56 am
If I have time this weekend, I’ll throw iCapella together and put it up for download. Perhaps if someone figures out simultaneous input/output for iPhone I can come out with a full version. I could always output to headphones, but for a full midi out sound, I would need to gather samples for basic instruments, and that may take a while.
April 11, 2008 at 8:17 pm
@JLA: really good idea! looking forward to see it. thanks!
April 12, 2008 at 8:32 am
so what exactslly is iCapella? And soil it end up with sound or not?
April 12, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I lose things very often and I was thinking that an application that you could install on both your computer and the ipod touch that allowed you to view where your ipod touch was via the computer, would be very helpful. A tracking program, I guess, using wifi, would be awesome not only for lost ipods, but for stolen ones.
April 12, 2008 at 8:47 pm
i just have one question. does the built in mic in iphone work with sip viop yet or not.
April 12, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Ok how about this: An update for the Sip-VoIP app that will let you alter your voice in speech, in other words, A VOICE CHANGER, it would be very cool and handy for people wanting to change the way You hear THE OTHER PERSON and the way you speak whether its for fun or prank calls:p. I just think it a great and doable idea. Comments?
April 12, 2008 at 9:55 pm
i got another idea for the most probable amazing app for the ipod touch/iphone…..and here is the details. If you have ever went on to looking for movies to watch or videos to watch on youtube or anything you see that they are no longer than 10 mins long. and even if you do come across something about 25 mins its still not good enough for a movie. well i was searching around and i came upon this site: http://www.watch-movies.net
Its incredible what people do to come across such ways for movie streaming like they do, but, if someone can get together and make an app that will work with that site’s movie streaming like it was possible for the people who made the app of MXTUBE which is just great. Waching full lenght movies on the ipod touch/iphone without having to download it and take up all your memory would just perfect the ipod touch/iphone to its fullest capacity. Thnaks for listening and i would appreciate if people started spreading the word of this idea….Remember…it all starts with the idea! Leo
April 14, 2008 at 6:32 pm
I was wondering if you guys were planning on updating the SIP voip application in the future, with an integrated contacts feature, and possibly text messaging?
just keeping my hopes up!
April 14, 2008 at 9:53 pm
@Leo:
I’ve actually made a voice-changer as well, well, sort-of…it doesn’t connect to the telephone system or anything. In fact, it’s not even real time…I haven’t been able to get good speed on any of the algorithms I’ve tested. So you press a button to record your voice, and then play it back…e.g. in a deeper voice. But even doing something that simple with the iPhone’s audio is a nightmare…the routing seems to behave in a random matter, and the sound often wont re-initialize correctly. So it’s yet another piece of vaporware… I’m hoping the new firmware (2.0) will bring more options in terms of routing…I’m currently porting Funiculus over, so I hope to test it soon…
I’m actually beginning to wonder if it’s possible for the iPhone speaker and mic to work at the same time outside of speaker-phone mode…and I’m curious as to whether the mic would feedback speaker sounds, seeing as how they are right next to each other.
April 14, 2008 at 11:19 pm
JLA, would it be possible to do it with headphones if not the speaker?
April 15, 2008 at 1:12 am
Thanks for the response@JLA
Then how about a walkie-talkie-like app that will enable me to view all availible ipods/iphones in wi-fi range to be able to comunicate by voice and possibly text, without having to be connected to the internet.
Another idea is to update the Sip-VoIP app so, for the people without a mike, can be able to put in text durng a call and have that text translated into voice by th same app.so i woild be talking to a person by an artificial voice( like remember bonzil buddy, the purple gorrila) and they could talk to hear and l hear their real voice. I know this sounds really difficult but anythings possible with the proper support and time that we have. It’s just an idea to think about, and possibly including it as an update in the next Sip-VoIP app. Thanks. Leo
April 15, 2008 at 5:17 am
How about an SD card reader,
http://www.buydig.com/shop/product.aspx?omid=103&ref=froogle&utm_source=Froogle&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BKF8E461&sku=BKF8E461
You could modify this to just use the sd part and internals, and reshape it to be about the size of the the touchmods mic That extra storage would be invaluable and a great way to add remove files with programs like Mobile Finder etc.
April 15, 2008 at 6:16 am
wow a built in speaker that would be awsom bit would I have to buy a new mic or would it be jus be just a new coding for the apps?
April 15, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Another useful app could be a Guitar-/Instrumet-Tuner App which captures the sound of the String via the mic.
April 16, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Also i was just thinking and i dont know if you guys have already thought of this but can you like use your mic to type the number you want to call? Like if i wanted to call someone house is there a way to just say to the mic 0012301234567? becuase i think thatd be awsome
April 16, 2008 at 8:55 pm
@burning_angel: That’s one app of mine that’s not vaporware…it’s been out since December…it’s a guitar/instrument tuner that uses the microphone to determine whether the pitch is sharp or flat…it’s called Funiculus, and it’s available on the ModMyiFone repository (which is one of the official community sources). And according to this website (which I’m not affiliated with…I’m an iphone person), it apparently works with the external mic…
I’m currently looking for someone to do the iCapella GUI, but everyone seems to agree with me that it wouldn’t be much fun without music. The option for headphones is possible to provide both audio input and output at once…I haven’t actually tried it, but I might give it a go. I’m just trying to imagine how ridiculous someone will look singing to their phone.
April 17, 2008 at 3:32 am
Ya, definately try to use headphone output.
April 18, 2008 at 9:53 pm
@JLA: the audio duplex technology
http://touchmods.net/touchmods/code/playrecfile.c
May 4, 2008 at 8:53 am
why dont you make the people get blown