Dream Log review by wander

Dream Log — Community App Review
Version: 0.1.1

Dream Log is for writing a dream down in the middle of the night without turning anything on.

Arm it before you sleep. If a dream wakes you, press a volume key without looking and say what you saw. One buzz means it is listening; press again, or stop talking, and two buzzes mean it has stopped. The screen stays dark and the phone stays locked the whole time.

While you sleep, the phone writes each recording down. In the morning the log shows each night’s dreams with the time they were told, and every one keeps its recording, because the phone mishears someone half asleep and the recording is the real one.

  • A recording with nothing in it louder than the room is marked “Nothing said”.
  • It disarms itself after twelve hours.
  • There are no settings.

The speech recognition is whisper.cpp, running on the phone. It asks for the microphone and nothing else, and has no internet permission, so nothing it hears can leave the phone. The cost is size: the APK is about 65 MB, almost all of it the English speech model. On a Kompakt a minute of speech takes about half a minute to write down.

If you take it to bed, I would like to hear how the log read in the morning, and what it made of your mumbling. And as always: open to suggestions!

Source, and the licence: GitHub - wanderwildwood/yumecho: Dream Log (夢帳 yumechō) — arm it before sleep, press a volume key in the dark to record a dream, and read it in the morning. Transcribed on the phone; nothing leaves it. · GitHub — GPL-3.0-only.

Review updated by @wander

  • Version: 0.1.1 → 0.1.5
  • Description updated
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Review for version 0.1.5
User rating: ★★★★★

I’m using this app for the last 3 nights. There is some issue with the volume button press not starting/stopping the recording voice. Sometimes they work and sometimes not.

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Review for version 0.1.5
User rating: ★★★★★

It’s a real fun using it. I could now recollect the very strange dreams I get.

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Review for version 0.1.5
User rating: ★★★★★

@wander , I like your apps. Many of your apps I installed on my MK. One thing I requset you make is the app icons to match with MK inbuilt apps icons.

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Review for version 0.1.5
Author’s rating: ★★★★★ · Author of this review

Hey thanks for checking out my apps – I’m glad you like them!
Edit: new icons are up! Let me know what you think :smiley:

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Review for version 0.1.5
User rating: ★★★★★

Icons look cool. Thank You.

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Review updated by @wander

  • Version: 0.1.5 → 0.1.7
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Review for version 0.1.7
Author’s rating: ★★★★★ · Author of this review

@ramamohan glad the icons landed well, and thanks for the nights of testing. The likeliest cause of a press that sometimes does nothing is DuraSpeed, the Kompakt’s battery manager: it stops apps a while after the screen goes dark, and a stopped Dream Log can’t hear the button. Version 0.1.7 is out now. If DuraSpeed is on, Settings shows an “Open DuraSpeed” row: tap it, tap Open, and switch Dream Log on in that list. If presses still go missing after that, tell me roughly when in the night it happened and I’ll dig further.