Can you tell whether headphones/headset are plugged in WP8

Question

Is it possible to tell whether the headphones are plugged in on a windows phone 8 device? I want to use the Text to Speech API but I don't want to read messages over the speaker

Answer 1

Actually, yes you can on WP8. It's not an obvious API, but these guys figured out how to do it as long as the phone is running anything above GDR1.

http://developer.nokia.com/community/wiki/How_to_detect_the_audio_path_(headset_connection)_on_Windows_Phone

Answer 2

No you can't.

See these google results:

1. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/winphone/forum/wp8-wpmusic/volume-change-and-headphone-detection-in-wp8/c9ddac53-b55b-4aaf-85ef-e208d69c1c0a
2. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/uk/wpdevelop/thread/7a0766ad-a2c0-4e98-88f8-80e88fa1a175