Sound block enhancement : sound preview

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Issue by Vincebecker
Thursday Sep 14, 2017 at 10:13 GMT
Originally opened as aseba-community/thymio-vpl2#118

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It could be nice to have a "play" button when you are creating a sound in VPL mobile.
So you can hear a preview of the sound before sending it to the robot.

The sound could come directly from the tablet/mobile phone.

Illustration of the idea :

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Comment by stephanemagnenat
Thursday Sep 14, 2017 at 13:31 GMT

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I agree about the play button, it is a good idea! In general, we should have more interaction between the block editors and the robot. I think that it would be better to produce the sound on the robot, because we want the users to focus on programming the robot in a tangible way.

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Comment by Vincebecker
Thursday Sep 14, 2017 at 13:43 GMT

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I think that it would be better to produce the sound on the robot, because we want the users to focus on programming the robot in a tangible way.

I thought it was useful to produce the sound on the tablet/phone in the following cases :

• robot is already doing something and maybe we don't want to interupt
• robot is far and you can't hear correctly the sound

But this is not so important. I will trust your judgment.

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Comment by stephanemagnenat
Thursday Sep 14, 2017 at 13:47 GMT

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I am not totally against previewing the sound on the tablet, but one problem we observed is that the link between the tablet and the robot might be non-trivial to make, so if we preview the sound on the robot it might help. But for sure this needs testing.