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Gemini PDA -- Voice assist -- does that work with all the OSs

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  Gemini PDA -- Voice assist -- does that work with all the OSs rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-08-22 16:50 +0200
    Re: Gemini PDA -- Voice assist -- does that work with all the OSs Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-08-22 17:40 +0200
    Re: Gemini PDA -- Voice assist -- does that work with all the OSs Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2018-08-22 18:00 +0200

#199238 — Gemini PDA -- Voice assist -- does that work with all the OSs

I now see that the Gemini PDA is available with 4 operating systems (maybe one 
is still vaporware), but they are Linux, Android, and 2 versions of Sailfish.

It has a voice assist button, and I'd like to know more about how this works:

   * does it work with all the operating systems available on the Gemini?  If 
not, which OSs does it work with?  

A somewhat related / alternate question is whether that voice assist is 
totally hardware driven (which I doubt) or does it require software (in which 
case, that software might work only in some of the available OSs.

   * presumably, for voice assist to work while the Gemini is in your pocket 
(which is mentioned on at least one webpage), the Gemini must be on and booted 
into an appropriate OS?

Thanks

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#199239

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:40:52AM -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> I now see that the Gemini PDA is available with 4 operating systems (maybe one 
> is still vaporware), but they are Linux, Android, and 2 versions of Sailfish.
> 
> It has a voice assist button, and I'd like to know more about how this works:
> 
>    * does it work with all the operating systems available on the Gemini?  If 
> not, which OSs does it work with?  
> 
> A somewhat related / alternate question is whether that voice assist is 
> totally hardware driven (which I doubt) or does it require software (in which 
> case, that software might work only in some of the available OSs.
> 
>    * presumably, for voice assist to work while the Gemini is in your pocket 
> (which is mentioned on at least one webpage), the Gemini must be on and booted 
> into an appropriate OS?


The button just starts an Android app (assuming Android is
running) that does voice search through Google's or someone
else's system. Nothing special in hardware, no support in other
OS.

-dsr-

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#199242

On Wednesday, 22 Aug 2018 at 10:40, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> I now see that the Gemini PDA is available with 4 operating systems
> (maybe one is still vaporware), but they are Linux, Android, and 2
> versions of Sailfish.
>
> It has a voice assist button, and I'd like to know more about how this
> works:

It does not work as such on Debian; it's an Android feature.  

The button is just a key like any other.  When running X11 in Debian, it
generates the XF86Send key event when pressed.  You can, of course, bind
this to anything you want, including some voice assist application if
such were to exist...

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.1.13 on Debian buster/sid

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