Notification Reader: Shouter

BHK

About this app

Voice notification does pretty much what the app name says it does. It reads out your notifications for you so you don't have to read them yourself and it comes with some more features like caller name announcement, message reading, battery state announcement, location proximity announcement. It comes with lot of customisation options.

What the app can do :-
1) Notification reading. (jellybean(4.3) and above)
2) Battery level announcement while charging.
3) Location proximity announcer
4) Battery and Charging State announcement.
5) Caller name announcement while the phone is ringing.
6) Missed calls announcement if you get a missed call.
7) Text messages reading.
8) Time announcement at user defined intervals. (Fully available only in pro version)
9) Voice reminder

Use cases :-
1) During cycling or bike rides.
2) For truckers and long distance drivers.
2) Read out game's notifications.
3) Caller name and message announcement will let you know if the call or message is important even if you do not have the device in hand
4) Battery level announcement while charging will let you know when to pick up your phone.

Following customisation option are available:-
1) Select apps whose notification you want to read.
2) Option to shout only the app name (notification sending app) for each app.
3) Customize prefixes.
4) Option to disable message reading for unknown numbers.
5) Option to read message content.
6) Option to enable announcement only if headphone is connected.
7) Option to enable announcement only if screen is off.
8) Option to repeat the announcement.
9) Master control for all shout. (WIDGET support)
10) Silent hours - Hours during which shouter doesn't announce.
11) Read Unknown numbers for call and message announcement.
12) Shake to mute.
13) Screen on/off to mute.
14) Announcement history.

Join our Facebook page to be part of development. ( https://www.facebook.com/notificationreader ). Your feature request will be put in the "Coming soon" section.


COMING SOON :-
1) Blacklist contacts

Please mail me or post in Facebook page with your custom feature request and feedback. I will try to implement it.

Highly optimised so it won't slow down your device.

please give a 5 star rating and support.

Mail me for errors in translation.

Ratings and reviews

While other reviews and the last update seem to indicate this app is (unfortunately) abandonware without support, and has bugs related to announcing callers, for my needs it's best-of-breed — small, unobtrusive (no persistent notification while running in the background), and a clear (if outdated) UI. What are my needs? I just want notifications to say the name of the app instead of choosing an alert sound. I want to hear "Calendar" and "Incoming text" instead of *bing-bong* and *twinkle-twinkle*. Shouter is perfect for that, easy to set up, and easy to see which apps are using Shouter.

Look no further! This is a game-changer for me. It says what it does and more. I have tried dozens of apps that were too invasive or had too much bloatware. This one announces texts, the time, battery charging, etc. The settings are user-friendly and for someone like me with Bluetooth hearing aids, it's exactly what I need to hear without disturbing others or making me stop while walking or working to see who texted. Keep up the great work!

This app is superb, it saves you a lot of time checking your phone manually when a notification comes in, to just hear it being read aloud. Furthermore, it supports any app that has notifications, so you can use it with every kind of messenger app, not just the built-in one, or none at all, as it can also be used for timed announcements, such as reminders. Aside from being a handy way to avoid having to unlock your phone's screen throughout the day to check notifications from friends, it just plain feels nice to hear incoming messages being read aloud sometimes. It can also be super-useful if you are in bed and a messenger notification goes off, to know whether or not it's something worth crawling out of bed to reply to, or just something that you can wait until morning to check.The app also includes an (optional) widget for your home screen, that when enabled, displays an on/off bar so that you can quickly disable the reading of notifications, in the event that you want to avoid annoying those around you in public. Prior to this most recent update, it became at one point temporarily unable to read SMS messages properly, but this issue was quickly resolved.

What's new

Due to recent changes in google's policy shouter is unable to access your sms or call information directly. Now Shouter uses data from Notification for detecting and announcing call and sms. So this permission has become important for call, sms, battery and Notification announcement