Archive for April 25th, 2009

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Code: SCListener

Here’s a good start for you if you’re interested in putting some microphone-activated features into your iPhone app:

Voice activation. Sounds cool, doesn’t it? And all the cool people are using it! Nintendo was on to something with their DS and its microphone: Wario’s little games were no match for a little heavy breathing. With the iPhone, Smule is using it up a storm! And iSteam? Yes! These guys get it: people love doing stuff with their mouths! If there’s some kind of reward involved, well then, now you’re talking. Blowing out candles, kissing, outright yelling up a scene—these are the things of life, right?

Yes, indeed. We’ll just lightly skip past that mouths bit, for the sake of our gentler readers, and focus on the code: it’s called SCListener and it’s on github for you to download. That’ll get you the input set up and metered … and off to the races with your blowing application. Er, we mean the application that you blow … er, no, we mean … yeah, well, you know.