Chapter 35. Talking Parrot

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The Talking Parrot app provides more entertainment with the microphone. After greeting you with a friendly “hello,” the parrot listens to what you say and then repeats it in its own voice, with a whistle or squawk thrown in. This app must not only turn the buffer collected from the microphone into a playable XNA sound effect, but it also must determine when is a good time to listen to the user and when is a good time to play the captured audio.

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