Buttons and automation

You can start, stop and restart Hebrish from outside the app. The floating mic must be on: it's the part of the app that's always running, so it receives the commands.

Buttons

Under Sound, microphone and buttons → Buttons and remotes, tap Learn next to an action, then press the button. Actions are Start or stop, Start, Stop and insert, Retake, Pause or resume, and Discard.

• Use bound buttons switches all bindings off without forgetting them, so the same remote works in other apps.
• Saved sets keep a named set of bindings, for example one per remote.
• Only bound keys are taken. Every other key works as usual. Back, Home and Recents are never bound.
• Many camera shutter remotes send Volume up. Binding it means the phone's own volume-up key dictates too. If that matters, map the remote with Key Mapper to a broadcast instead.

From other apps

Tasker, MacroDroid and Key Mapper can send these broadcasts to package app.hebrish.dictation, with no extras:

Action	Effect
app.hebrish.dictation.action.TOGGLE	Start a take, or stop and transcribe
app.hebrish.dictation.action.START	Start a take if idle
app.hebrish.dictation.action.STOP	Stop and transcribe
app.hebrish.dictation.action.RESTART	Throw the take away and start a new one
app.hebrish.dictation.action.PAUSE	Pause or resume
app.hebrish.dictation.action.DISCARD	Drop the take without transcribing

Send them as a broadcast, not an activity or service intent. In Tasker that's Send Intent with Target Broadcast Receiver.

adb shell am broadcast -a app.hebrish.dictation.action.TOGGLE -p app.hebrish.dictation

For hardware ideas, see the hardware guide.