SHOE PHONE

The truth, printed first

Nothing on this page pretends otherwise. Pairing happens in the phone’s settings (below). Calling happens in the phone’s dialer. Listening happens only when you press a button and the browser offers the feature. This page is the tidy desk the phone sits on — not the phone.

1 · The pairing recipe

Use any ordinary Bluetooth earpiece you already own. No special hardware, no app, no account.

1. Put the earpiece in pairing mode. On most earpieces: hold its power / call button until its light blinks (check the earpiece’s own little manual if it does not blink).
2. Open the phone’s own Bluetooth settings. On the phone: Settings → Bluetooth (make sure Bluetooth is ON).
3. Pair the earpiece there. Tap the earpiece’s name when it appears in the list, and confirm any pairing prompt. Wait until it reads “Connected.”
4. Set it as the call audio path. In the phone’s Settings → Bluetooth, open the earpiece’s detail and make sure “Phone calls” / call audio is enabled for it. Then, during any call, use the dialer’s audio / speaker button to route the call to the earpiece if it does not go there automatically.
5. Come back here and prove it. Run the Line Test in section 4 below: play the tone and record a few seconds of your voice. If you hear both clearly through the earpiece, the voice path works.

After those five steps the shoe-phone trick is complete: phone in pocket (or in the prop, once the prop exists), earpiece in ear, this console on the phone screen. The console never touches the pairing — it only benefits from it.

2 · Dial pad

Tap a number, then press Call. The Call button is a real tel: link: it hands the number to the phone’s own dialer, and the dialer does the calling — through the paired earpiece, if you paired one above. This page never places a call itself. It cannot dial, connect, or hang up; it can only hand a number over, the way a printed phone number does.

Dialer hand-off only. Review the number in your dialer before you confirm the call there.

3 · Assistant — push to talk

Press the button and speak a number (for example, “five five five, one two three four”). Where the browser genuinely offers speech recognition, the console listens, prints what it heard, and — if it hears digits — fills the dial pad above so you can review and call with the tel: button. Recognition, where offered, is the browser’s own service; this page adds no account and no listener of its own.

Checking whether this browser offers speech recognition…

4 · Line test — prove the earpiece path

Two checks, both behind explicit buttons. Nothing is stored and nothing is sent: the recording lives only as a temporary sound in this page until you leave or reload, and the tone is generated on the spot.

A. Hear the tone

Plays a short test tone. Listen for it in the earpiece (not just the phone speaker) — if the tone is in your ear, the output path is the earpiece.

B. Record and play back a few seconds

Press record, allow the microphone if the browser asks, speak for a few seconds (“testing the shoe line, one two three”), then press stop — or it stops on its own after about 5 seconds. Play it back: clear playback in the earpiece means both directions of the voice path work. The microphone is requested only when you press this button.

Idle. No microphone access has been requested.

What works, what is recipe — on the face

• Works on this page: the dial pad and its tel: hand-off; the test tone; the record / play-back line test (where the browser grants the microphone); the Assistant (only where the browser genuinely offers speech recognition).
• Recipe, not code: Bluetooth pairing and call-audio routing. Those belong to the phone’s settings by design of every phone OS — the numbered recipe in section 1 is the feature, printed honestly instead of faked with a dead “Pair” button.
• Prop, not product: the hollow-sole shoe itself. It stays on the gear register as the owner’s craft project; this console needs no shoe to work.