Assign "headphone" or "always" mode to TTS output, instead of always-on

[firefoxlover]

🚀 feature request

Description

It is so annoying. I always use two modes, either handheld, on a phone mount or just to check, or with TTS, headphones plugged in, in my pocket.

OSMAnd doesnt differentiate between headphone-in and speaker mode, unlike a lot of music player apps.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add the features:

TTS "activate when on headphones" "activate" "deactivate'

Describe alternatives you've considered

Manually turning on and off, quick menu.

[vshcherb]

Not reproduced

[sonora]

@firefoxlover Can you be more explicit what issue you observe and how to reproduce? I use OsmAnd TTS frequently, including occasionally changing between device speaker, wired earplugs, BT earplugs,, and car stereo via Bluetooth/SCO, but observe no issue?

[firefoxlover]

The request is enabling detection of the connected state. If plugged out, TTS goes silent. This is enabled perfectly in VLC Android.

The problem is, that you may not want loud TTS if you have no headphones plugged in.

[sonora]

Ah, understand. So you want OsmAnd to be muted when no wired headset is connected, and be automatically unmuted when one is connected.

Yes, doable, of course. There used to be an AudioManager method isWiredHeadsetOn(), which was deprecated and now is replaced by more complex ways of evaluating possible output devices via the AudioDeviceInfo[] array.

But this seems like a rather specific request a little far from main stream, I am not sure I would readily say "great idea, likely welcomed by the masses"... ;) As a workaround: There is a Voice on/off quick action button you could put on the map screen.