VoiceInteractor

Class Overview

Interface for an Activity to interact with the user through voice. Use Activity.getVoiceInteractor to retrieve the interface, if the activity is currently involved in a voice interaction.

The voice interactor revolves around submitting voice interaction requests to the back-end voice interaction service that is working with the user. These requests are submitted with submitRequest(VoiceInteractor.Request), providing a new instance of a VoiceInteractor.Request subclass describing the type of operation to perform -- currently the possible requests are VoiceInteractor.ConfirmationRequest and VoiceInteractor.CommandRequest.

Once a request is submitted, the voice system will process it and eventually deliver the result to the request object. The application can cancel a pending request at any time.

The VoiceInteractor is integrated with Activity's state saving mechanism, so that if an activity is being restarted with retained state, it will retain the current VoiceInteractor and any outstanding requests. Because of this, you should always use Request.getActivity to get back to the activity of a request, rather than holding on to the activity instance yourself, either explicitly or implicitly through a non-static inner class.

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