Comment by vivzkestrel

- one thing i also started doing is indirectly ask about the idea on expert subreddits on reddit and see what people have to say

- one of my latest ideas was to handle spam calls on my android phone

- the way i wanted to do this is to have an app pick up the phone call automatically everytime and ask a bunch of user defined questions

- for example, caller: hi i am angel from XYZ spam company

- audio streams through the app with an LLM processing every word and it asks back "who are you trying to reach?"

- caller doesnt answer in 30 seconds or wrong answer. call dropped automatically and the phone is not even ringing yet

- caller says ABC and the autoresponder immediately asks the next question

- "what is the password to reach abc"

- caller doesnt answer or gives incorrect answer within 30 seconds and call is dropped immediately

- caller gives correct answer and now the phone starts ringing

- obviously the questions are set by the user and it ll change from user to user

- imagine by biggest disappointment when I found out from the r/androiddev group that the permission to actually audio process a phone call is simply not available unless you root your android phone. Its a no-go even on the iphone

- Even if you do root the phone, I haven't gotten a conclusive answer from anyone either on reddit or even here on HN so far on the feasibility of implementing such a feature

- Thank god I did not burn 100 hrs into this