Added .gitignore and updated to include the USB connection and stream on certainty of word/phrase results....

app/build.gradle.kts

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+plugins {
+    alias(libs.plugins.android.application)
+    alias(libs.plugins.kotlin.android)
+}
+
+android {
+    namespace = "net.mmanningau.speechtokeyboard"
+    compileSdk = 36
+
+    defaultConfig {
+        applicationId = "net.mmanningau.speechtokeyboard"
+        minSdk = 28
+        targetSdk = 36
+        versionCode = 4
+        versionName = "1.0"
+
+        testInstrumentationRunner = "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
+    }
+
+    buildTypes {
+        release {
+            isMinifyEnabled = false
+            proguardFiles(
+                getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android-optimize.txt"),
+                "proguard-rules.pro"
+            )
+        }
+    }
+    compileOptions {
+        sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_11
+        targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_11
+    }
+    kotlinOptions {
+        jvmTarget = "11"
+    }
+}
+
+dependencies {
+
+    implementation(libs.androidx.core.ktx)
+    implementation(libs.androidx.appcompat)
+    implementation(libs.material)
+    implementation(libs.androidx.activity)
+    implementation(libs.androidx.constraintlayout)
+    testImplementation(libs.junit)
+    androidTestImplementation(libs.androidx.junit)
+    androidTestImplementation(libs.androidx.espresso.core)
+
+    // 1. The "Brain": Vosk Offline Speech Recognition
+    implementation("com.alphacephei:vosk-android:0.3.47")
+    // (Optional) Helper for memory management if needed later
+    // Removed the following as it was listed as optional and it did cause errors -
+    // so to avoid a whole list of duplicate class found errors - this is already required via the VOSK libraries
+    // implementation("net.java.dev.jna:jna:5.13.0")
+
+    // 2. The "Mouth": USB Serial Driver for Android
+    implementation("com.github.mik3y:usb-serial-for-android:3.7.0")
+}