Text to speech without a Network Connection? - windows-phone-7

Android has a TTS library. It works without a network connection. Does an analog of this library exist for windows phone? I see only Bing's API for using TTS, but this requires a network connection...

Not at present. You need a internet connection as MS have not provided an API in the OS yet.

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Web page beacon

I would like to send a BLE Eddystone beacon from a web page. My application requires to send SSID info to a BLE listener. My thought is to have a user load a URL on a smartphone that would run JS to send periodic BLE Eddystone-UID beacons with SSID info embedded. I need the web page to work on both Android and iOS phones. Is there a simple way to do this using Javascript?
I looked into physical web but it did not seem to provide this capability.
thanks,
Ian
The current version of the Web Bluetooth API specification allows websites, running in the Central role, to connect to remote GATT Servers over a BLE connection. What you're looking for is a way to run in the Server role to advertise your data.
In your case, I'd recommend you have a look at https://www.npmjs.com/package/#abandonware/bleno

BLE: LE Secure Connection with Xamarin

We're talking about BLE. Right now Im using the Plugin.BLE library and it's working quite fine. Now Im in the need of using the LE Secure Connection (with the "just works" method) in order to send/receive encrypted data.
I've read lots of documentation about how the protocol works, but have no idea of how actually implementing it in Xamarin and wasn't able to find anything on this.
With the Plugin.BLE one can take advantage of a very simple APIs to connect to a Device.
Is there any library that provides similar simplicity and enabling an LE Secure Connection?
If not, how can I connect in Android & iOS to a BLE device using a secure channel?
Thank you very much
The pairing is handled by the Bluetooth stack and not by the application, so you can't affect this in any way. However, from Marshmallow and onward, BLE pairing will use Secure Connections as long as the second device supports it. Not sure about iOS.

Bluetooth Developer Studio connecting with real server (ibeacon)

Totally new in Bluetooth Developer Studio. How can I connect to actual physical ibeacon?
Using the HID over GATT profile in a new project, gives Workbench for interacting with a Virual Server. Can I connect directly to an actual ibeacon in range for read/write?
Understand that iBeacon is a transmit only standard, so there is no standard way of establishing a Bluetooth connection. Beacons simply send out a Bluetooth LE advertisement at a periodic rate.
Some beacon manufacturers do have proprietary configuration GATT services which are connectable. But the details of how you do so (if it is even possible) are specific to the manufacturer.

Server socket on Windows Phone

I'm in the process of porting an application to the Windows Phone platform. I spent quite a while reading MSDN documentation and I can'd find nothing on the subject.
Is it possible to create server sockets on Windows Phone? All I've found is related with client side, like creating connections to remote machines. I can't find nothing the other way: The phone acting as the server.
Some essential methods like Bind and Listen are not exposed by the Socket class included in the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK.
This was kind of a surprise to me.
Any help or confirmation on this will be truly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
You cannot open a socket for listening from a Windows Phone 7 application. This is due primarily to the complexities of the cellular data networks, such as the use of transparent proxies, shared IP addresses, and frequent connection disruptions.
Until windows phone 8 you will not be able to listen on sockets, you have to use an intermediary service to listen/send between two or more phones.
Check this link, on windows phone 8, there is new API introduced for streamlistner
We are also trying at our end, should be possible
Class is StreamSocketListener
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/windows.networking.sockets.streamsocketlistener.aspx
I dont know about a "server" but it has UDP functionality and can send data through it and send/receive with TCP.
also, i have found the SDK to lack some APIs to interface with the phone. ex no Bluetooth or not being able to switch between internal and headphones for sound through developer programming.

disconnect to wifi programmatically

Could I disconnect to wifi programmatically in Cocoa?
For the Mac, see the CoreWLAN Framework. Specifically the disassociate method of CWInterface. On the iPhone (since you tagged this cocoa-touch), I believe this operation is restricted (ie, no supported API exists for applications to configure network connectivity).

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