Kitchboard: Kitchen Timer Hub

Floury hands? Say 'set a ten-minute timer' and it starts. Kitchboard turns a spare Android tablet into a kitchen board: voice timers, recipes read aloud step by step and a shared shopping list. It runs as part of a PerliSmart household, so set that up first. Good to know: Kitchboard is a companion app. A tablet joins your PerliSmart household on your own Wi-Fi or by scanning a pairing code from a tablet that is already set up; until then it shows the clock and little else. WHAT IT DOES - Opens on a kitchen board, not a generic assistant screen. - Several named timers at once, each with its own countdown and progress bar. Set them by voice or with one tap. - Recipes with step-by-step read-aloud and one-tap step timers. - A shopping list shared with the other tablets in your household. - Quick kitchen conversions on screen: cups, spoons, ounces, pounds and oven temperatures. Ask out loud for anything else. - Weather, notes and a calendar are one tap away. THE MICROPHONE - The wake word "Okay Pearl" is spotted on the device. That audio never leaves it. - Only after the wake word, or a tap, does a listening window open. By default the audio of that one command goes over an encrypted connection to the PerliSmart service to be turned into text; a setting recognises speech on the device instead. - While the microphone is open a notification says so, and it cannot be swiped away. - Mute releases the microphone completely. Free sign-in keeps your purchases and settings on every device. WHAT IT COSTS Kitchboard is free with ads; a one-time Remove ads purchase turns them off. PRIVACY - No crash-reporting SDK. - No contacts and no location. Install Kitchboard on a spare tablet and get a kitchen timer you set by voice.

First release of Kitchboard.