Text Message Reader with Voice Commands

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Reads out text messages while a Bluetooth audio device is connected. You can choose whether voice commands are enabled and set specific Bluetooth devices to exclude from speech readout and/or voice commands. You can also stop or snooze readout using the notification or voice commands. Messages received during a phone call are saved and read out when the call is competed if their notifications are still present.

Some texting apps allow text threads to be muted and don't show their notifications in that case. The Reader flow detects that and won't read out messages in muted threads, or when the phone is in Do Not Disturb mode.

You can run the 'Send Test Message' flow after starting the Reader flow to send a test SMS or MMS message.

Available Voice Commands:

Call ("Call")
Reply ("Reply")
Ignore ("Ignore")
Repeat ("Repeat")
Open texting app ("Open")
Save text notification ("Save")
Stop reading messages ("Stop")
Snooze for ten minutes ("Snooze")

The Save command works like Ignore, except that the notification from the texting app is not dismissed.

Note that for RCS texting apps like Google Messages, replying to a group chat may cause a duplicate group to be created for some recipients on Apple devices. The flow allows you to optionally warn you in that case.

Updates:
• Optionally ignore messages when device is unlocked; pause texts received during phone calls
• Reading the command list for every message is now optional; MMS bug fixes and improvements; group messages now indicated; message text immediate readout is now optional
• Suppress message readout from unknown senders and fix readout of their phone number
• Improve handling of overlapping texts and Bluetooth hand-off when connection rolls over to a new device
• Improve RCS support; confirm stopping the reader via the notification; device phone number no longer needed during initial setup; fix opening of texting app; improve readout of reaction responses; optionally warn of replying to group chats when using an RCS texting app