Conversational power for Android apps

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Shows how to add real conversational features to an Android app using built‑in and cloud tools: uses TextToSpeech since API 4 (Android 1.6) to speak (controls queue, utterance start/done/error, synthesize to file), uses the SpeechRecognizer API (since Android 2.2) to listen and returns confidence scores ~ -1..+1, notes offline vs online behavior around API 22, and uses API.ai agent and entities to map utterances to actions and parameters.

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" chapters (4)

1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:43Text-to-speech implementation
3. 24:27Speech recognition
4. 38:26Message understanding

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