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Can I customize the voice on gps?

Is it possible to add my custom voice for the gps?
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Yeah that would be cool. Like the garmin in my car has about 10-12 diff voices.

Settings -> Text-to-speech -> Language -> British English (in 2.1)
Settings -> Voice input & output -> Text-to-speech settings -> Language -> British English (in 2.2)
you might have to download it from the market (I did in cm6 by going to: Settings > Voice input & output > Text-to-speech settings > Install voice data). you also might need to check off "Always use my settings" also. Even with British English selected, distances are Imperial (feet/yards/miles) not Metric.
Have fun playing with the speech rate also

Thank you for the reply but I meant if I can make a custom sentence. Ex: "turn .right at so and so" to " bust a right at so and so".
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novanosis85 said:
Thank you for the reply but I meant if I can make a custom sentence. Ex: "turn .right at so and so" to " bust a right at so and so".
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Then no that isn't possible...

novanosis85 said:
Thank you for the reply but I meant if I can make a custom sentence. Ex: "turn .right at so and so" to " bust a right at so and so".
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Not with Google Nav, unfortunately. Might want to post a feature request to Google for it.

Well here's to hoping.....
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Google Nav is still in beta, every nav system has voice options, Google Nav just has synthesized voice right now. It is not a priority, but it will happen before it leaves beta, which with google could be a while but i would expect this feature within a year.

Yes you can change the voice for the navigation, it is a standardized voice for the whole phone. There just are not many alternate voice options yet to do so. The market only has two voices that I found, one is free and very bad, the other is a paid for one, I think the voice was called 'Susan' but I did not try that one.

First of all...good job XDA for the auto search function when trying to start a new thread! LoL!
I noticed that the voice for Google Nav is so much better and more natural prior to installing the speech synthesis package. I wonder why they didn't use that? I nearly thought it was the 'new' voice with the new Maps update. Got all excited for nothing after downloading the speech pack!
Obviously, it only gives you general directions and doesn't say the names of the streets.

Closest I can find to a new speech pack is svox
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.svox.classic.langpack.eng_usa_fem
But it's marginally better and isn't free (based on the examples I heard on their website).. So I'm holding off for google to implement their own improved version (or until $2 is burning a hole in my pocket one day)

Android voice actions - get a better voice

If any of you are using vlingo, voice actions, speaktoit etc.
and are still using the default text to speech voices, then read below.
Install 'svox classic'
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.svox.classic&hl=en
its free, and then the 'Victoria' voice that can be purchased from within the app. (or any other, there are several USA voices).
then go to settings/voice input/text to speech settings/default engine, and set it to svox.
It makes all speech on the phone sound so much more naturalistic and sexy.
(also, the paid version of voice actions definitely seems better on my SG2 than the free one, more accurate and smooth.)

CarsnGadgets said:
If any of you are using vlingo, voice actions, speaktoit etc.
and are still using the default text to speech voices, then read below.
Install 'svox classic'
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.svox.classic&hl=en
its free, and then the 'Victoria' voice that can be purchased from within the app. (or any other, there are several USA voices).
then go to settings/voice input/text to speech settings/default engine, and set it to svox.
It makes all speech on the phone sound so much more naturalistic and sexy.
(also, the paid version of voice actions definitely seems better on my SG2 than the free one, more accurate and smooth.)
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Hi very nice suggestion, I have downloaded SVOX and I decided to buy after trying the fre trial a couple of voices ..... very nice !
thanks !

Your welcome,
I found its made the whole voice assistant thing far more natural/enjoyable.
PS. for everyone else, Svox currently has free trials of all the voices for a couple of weeks!

Thanks. I done everything you stated. The us English voices are very smooth.
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[TUTORIAL] Configuring Google Now

It seems a fair few people are having issues configuring Google Now to give them the smooth female voice, images in the search content and the ability to send texts, set alarms etc.
Follow this tutorial and you should be sorted in no time.
The problem is that the phones native language should be set to US English, and the Google Now search needs to be configured to use google.com
Configuring Android Language
Go to Settings
Language & input
Language
English (United States)
Downloading Language Packs
Go to Settings
Language & input
Google voice typing (settings)
Download offline speech recognition
English (United States)
Configure Voice Search
Go to Settings
Language & input
Voice Search
Language
English (United States)
Configure Text-to-speech
Go to Settings
Language & input
Tech-to-speech output
Google Text-to-speech (settings)
Language
English (United States)
Configure Google Now
Go to Google Now
Settings
Privacy and accounts
Tick box for "Search on google.com"
Note: If you are in a Google Apps domain (rather than gmail.com/etc.), you will need to enable this feature as an administrator:
Google Apps Control Panel -> Settings -> Mobile -> Org Settings.
Click the checkbox beside "Enable Google Now." for the "organization" which should have access to the service.
(thanks to Rob Boek for pointing this out).
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Now you should be all good to go. Give it a try and let me know

No "search on google.com" (even though it does it automatically for me) in privacy and accounts settings. Just Manage location settings, location and google search, show recent searches, and manage web history...

anton2009 said:
No "search on google.com" (even though it does it automatically for me) in privacy and accounts settings. Just Manage location settings, location and google search, show recent searches, and manage web history...
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Interesting.. Not sure on that one. Take it you're in the US

I can't seem to download any language pack for the voice recognition. I see many languages listed but they keep failing to download. Is it because I'm not in the US?

musashiken said:
I can't seem to download any language pack for the voice recognition. I see many languages listed but they keep failing to download. Is it because I'm not in the US?
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Im not in the US either but i've managed to get mine working and downloaded. Are you on Wifi?

Thanks, this worked for me. I had my settings configured for Australia.

Evostance said:
Im not in the US either but i've managed to get mine working and downloaded. Are you on Wifi?
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I tried both wifi and data. No go. Sometimes it tries to download but it will just disappear by itself. Nothing is installed.

musashiken said:
I can't seem to download any language pack for the voice recognition. I see many languages listed but they keep failing to download. Is it because I'm not in the US?
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Language pack for UK downloaded fine for me, however it does seem to take an unusually long amount of time (~10 mins)

Well seeing that there's a country besides each language, I figured that I can't download any because I'm not in any of them...

musashiken said:
Well seeing that there's a country besides each language, I figured that I can't download any because I'm not in any of them...
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Thats very odd, i dont think thats the case as I just download Chinese succesfully

Hmm, maybe it's the new franco JB kernel? That's the only thing I changed from bigxie's rom. I'll probably look around my location settings again.

I can't get it to open any of my apps....
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How to set up Home/Work Locations. All credit to Jessesmith888

rasinell said:
I can't get it to open any of my apps....
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I dont think it can do that

Evostance said:
I dont think it can do that
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That's pants. The old search would and it has the search phone selections like it used to... seems odd that they'd remove functionality from it
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rasinell said:
That's pants. The old search would and it has the search phone selections like it used to... seems odd that they'd remove functionality from it
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You can still search for the app and click on it

Evostance said:
You can still search for the app and click on it
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So you can. Thanks. I Missed the little phone icon
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Thank you so much for this information! I can now add alams and send texts. I cannot get it to open applications though, no biggie!
Thanks again
EDIT : One last thing, it now thinks that I am living in the US and automatically gives me forecasts for Washington. I have to say "Weather forecast in Swansea" to get my location. Any way of changing this?

welshboy09 said:
Thank you so much for this information! I can now add alams and send texts. I cannot get it to open applications though, no biggie!
Thanks again
EDIT : One last thing, it now thinks that I am living in the US and automatically gives me forecasts for Washington. I have to say "Weather forecast in Swansea" to get my location. Any way of changing this?
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Turn on location settings. Mine works fine

Evostance said:
Turn on location settings. Mine works fine
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They are all on, it still gives me information for US though.
If I select "search on google.com" it gives me US results, if I un-tick it, it gives results for my location

Google Now Doesn't Speak

Please forgive me, I have searched but 'Google Now' isn't a great search term...
Basically, I get no voice feedback when using voice search or the Google Now app on my 4.1.1 Jelly Bean update. Initially I was underwhelmed by Google Now and wondered what the fuss was, until I discovered it should be talking back to me in a Siri-like fashion.
I had the leaked 4.1 I/O release previously and same issue. Language is English and I have voice prompts turned on in the search settings.
Any ideas? It's a Google stock ROM and it never worked, so I really don't know what it could be.
Edit: Nevermind, same discussion here. Too bad there's no time-limited delete functionality here, feel free to delete.

Try this
There is my solution:
- Set your locale to whatever you want
- Set the Google Now Voice Language to English US
- Voice Output to Always
- Remove the tick(untick the box) on Hide Offensive Words
I spent hours of tinkering with this and tried all kinds of options, but in the end that solved it for me. This is because recently there was an update to Google Search, which is the application designation for Google Now and it introduced this bug.
I have my locale to my native one English UK en-GB and everything works like a charm as it should be and as it used to work before the update.

goliath969 said:
There is my solution:
- Set your locale to whatever you want
- Set the Google Now Voice Language to English US
- Voice Output to Always
- Remove the tick(untick the box) on Hide Offensive Words
I spent hours of tinkering with this and tried all kinds of options, but in the end that solved it for me. This is because recently there was an update to Google Search, which is the application designation for Google Now and it introduced this bug.
I have my locale to my native one English UK en-GB and everything works like a charm as it should be and as it used to work before the update.
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I have same problem with google now and this setup not helped

How about this
vintermut said:
I have same problem with google now and this setup not helped
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Make sure that you have downloaded the offline speech recognition in English US and maybe try asking something like "What's the time?". It will not talk back to all questions. Only the ones that were specifically pre-programmed. If it still doesn't work, try putting your system locale to English US and restarting your phone. And most importantly update your Talkback, Google Search and Google Voice search apps to their latest through the Play Store.
What I did now officially works on my O2 HTC One S and 3UK HTC One X, so it works for sure on those two.
I hope this helps

G-Voice Assistant (Google Assistant) for Samsung Galaxy Smartwatches

G-Voice Assistant app allows you to ask questions and send commands to Google Assistant system.
Application supports all Samsung Smartwatches with Tizen OS (min. ver. 3.0).
Store links at Galaxy Store:
G-Voice Assistant
G-Voice Assistant Pro
VIDEO:
on youtube search text "G-Voice Assistant (Google Assistant)"

nice
wow, work great!!!!

works amazing so far! tempted to try out the pro version ?
after using it a while,
it says "Quota exhausted. Logout and restart the application".

What happened to the links?

usn.mustanger said:
What happened to the links?
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http://apps.samsung.com/gear/appDetail.as?appId=com.somyac.gear.assistant.core
http://apps.samsung.com/gear/appDetail.as?appId=com.somyac.gear.assistant.plugin

In the normal version, Portuguese [PT] isn't working... bug?

Hey, this is a really great app! But it has a serious flaw:
After some questions, voice recognition and voice reply switches to english although it was supposed to listen and answer in German (set to German in settings).
Also, can you add an "listen on launch" setting?
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ademmer said:
Hey, this is a really great app! But it has a serious flaw:
After some questions, voice recognition and voice reply switches to english although it was supposed to listen and answer in German (set to German in settings).
Also, can you add an "listen on launch" setting?
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Just noticed that somehow, the app lost my login and I had to re-login. Now it is back to my default language.

I tried to uninstall the normal version after purchasing and installing the pro version but so the pro no longer works. So is it necessary to have both the normal and the pro version at the same time?
I would like to install only the pro version, is this possible?
Thanks for the reply

I purchased this application for my watch but after a few commands it loses the set Italian language and the commands are set to English.
It does not work.

Can I set up gpay on galaxy watches? I intend to buy galaxy watch 3 but samsung pay is not yet enable in our country.
Tnx

It's not sending sms on GWA2 LTE. It's also not supporting google home devices. Don't pay for pro...

google home
krogoth said:
It's not sending sms on GWA2 LTE. It's also not supporting google home devices. Don't pay for pro...
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i don't have de pro version , google home devices , like smart lights, work fine for me.

So far, much better designed and simpler than GAssist. No need for a phone companion app. On the downside, it seems results are a scrollable webpage. Still lets me control my home devices, so I'm making the switch from GAssist to this one.

Beso said:
Can I set up gpay on galaxy watches? I intend to buy galaxy watch 3 but samsung pay is not yet enable in our country.
Tnx
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this question has no meaning in this discussion!

ddborello said:
this question has no meaning in this discussion!
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Then please direct me to proper discussion

What command do You use to start smart devices? Same command works for me on the phone but doesn't on watch. On watch it try to run an application.

This is good! Had to turn of BT. Kept saying no internet. They will fix BT according to the response on youtube.
Was a pain in the ass to type the email and login. Managed to switch to handwriting somehow.
I like I can change the volume with bezel.
Controls all my home smart devices.
Asked to set a reminder. Crashed after I said the time. Then said number of tries exhausted. Please restart app. Then you just have to close it in "Recent Apps" and it works again.

Is there a way to switch to the normal on-watch keyboard during login, vice the T9 one? I'm unable to login in because, for some reason, the T9 keyboard keeps messing up my password.
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usn.mustanger said:
Is there a way to switch to the normal on-watch keyboard during login, vice the T9 one? I'm unable to login in because, for some reason, the T9 keyboard keeps messing up my password.
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T9 kept messing up my gmail and pw. It was not typing the correct letters.
I switched to handwriting by accident. So there must be a way.

Turn off predictive text so the T9 will work like it should.
I uninstalled the free version and purchased pro. You have have the free version installed with pro. I tried pro without the free version. Only works if both are installed.
When I turned off predictive text, the T9 worked as expected. When entering password, the handwriting input came up again somehow.