How you all finding this?
It can dictate a text no problem, but doesn't seem to pick up the TO: field for me.
So if I say "send text to bob how are you" it will fill in "2 bob how are you" in the message field and leave the TO field empty. how are you getting on? It's still pretty cool. And you can say things like "call 08665242424" and it gets that perfect. Although when I say "call Joe" it just won't find the appropriate entry on my SIM card.
hey,
So far with the actions, i had a little bit of troubling getting it to call my contacts e.g. "call Paul C" an it suggests everyone else in my list with the surname C except "Paul C" also the text thing doesnt seem to work at all, but i have found it's very good at web searching and also when you have already entered the texting menu, i think once it gets the support for different countries it will be really good and fun to use.
At the minute its more of a novelty, but it could become very very useful.
We had a lot of fun earlier as what I said and what the phone thought I said was so different!
e.g.
Send a text to Teresa to say hello
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Send a text recycle au
I did manage to get the thing to give me directions to Skegness (although I was trying to call somebody at the time).
Maybe I need to lay on an american accent and try again
But... But... But... It worked so well in the little video!
Very hit and miss for me. If it works, it works spot on 100% and great. If it fails, it fails epically.
Same here. If it works, it works, if not, well I just hope I'm not showing it off to a friend as it can make an ass of itself.
The text action? Doesn't work for me at all. Neither does setting an alarm. Getting directions is perhaps the most reliable voice action of all. Calling people is hit and miss. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just doesn't complete the action. I'll say, "Call Claire XYZ Mobile", and it displays a list of 'did you mean?' options. The top one is usually right, but when I click it it Googles it as a search term!
The Alarm is still in development
the fact it requires a data connection means its learning as it goes. Recording 10000s of new words per day and linking them based by region. In time it should be able to learn words with accents etc so well that its hard to fool.
at the moment it is certainly more novelty than technological wow. but.. I think it will get there. I wish you could "teach it" by sampling your address book. I mean you click on a contacts name and then say it 5 times and the google learns how this name is pronounced in your region. then it recognizes it next time. I think they'll get there. this is a good start.
If it learns as it goes, then all those who set theory phone to US English may not be helping out develop the software for their own language if each voice request is sent out with a language tag from the phone.
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How do I know what version of "voice search" I have?
I used the QR code from the google blog and and doesn't recognize some of them.
For example, it will recognize "note to self I am cool" but it will ask to do a search instead of noting to self.
It picks up very few words I say correctly. Usually "call" it always gets correct. Brilliant concept but not very practical for the masses yet.
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I've found this terrible so far, 0% success rate! Even speaking in most clearest English with no background noise.
Maybe you have more success with an American accent??
But the odd thing is that the previous "search by voice" and technologies such as Translate both recognise voice really really well.
As with most of you, no success at all.. another interesting thing is set it to US English and hold it up to your speakers and play the guy from the Youtube video talking and it fails to get correct anything he says as well so I would like to know how they got 100% success rate in the video.
I have had limited success with it set to US english, one big problem is the "listen to" command, it insists that I need to install a music player, I have spotify installed (which is on the approved list) but voice action does not appear to recognise that it is there.
thejinx0r said:
How do I know what version of "voice search" I have?
I used the QR code from the google blog and and doesn't recognize some of them.
For example, it will recognize "note to self I am cool" but it will ask to do a search instead of noting to self.
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It is looking for the nearest psychiatrist, as it has deduced you are in urgent need thereof
Like the previous voice to text, it mainly accepts US english inflection, for the moment being.
However in my fake mafioso-US-english accent I could manage to type some emails, but I couldn't, for the hell of it, make it recognize the 'to' field most of the times. I think you really have to speak it all together "send email (no pause) to xyz (pause) how are you ?"
Too many "SERVER PROBLEM" .... not good.
OK, I've figured it out. It works and works just as accurate as in the Google vid. You just have to speak at your normal pace and the phone no more than around 6 inches away.
I can use US and UK accents to get it working. I've moved around enough to know them well.
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I have tried it for directions, navigation, voice dialing good.text message no go on generic htc sense 2.2.
Northern irish accent.
Just saying one word searches for pizza, thai, pubs god tho.bruins up google search entries by location.plus point
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Is the Desire missing Google voice search? I can't seem to find how to access / enable it at all. My girlfriends Motorola Dext has it, and it's quite nifty. Perhaps I'm just being blind, but I can't figure it out!!
Cheers,
Badger
I havent recieve my HTC desire yet, so havent had chance to play with it. Anyway I found the following:
http://nimbu.amorvi.com/2010/04/add-voice-search-to-htc-phones/
Dont know if they work great or not. I believe I have read somewhere here, that it works ok.
It's not natively installed but that works very well. Keep the search button pressed and the voice prompt will show up and it recognizes most common words I've yet asked of it and additionally Google also then returns accurate results.
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There we go. Perfect. THanks very much
Wanna shed some light on this whole V2T.
I sent an email to HTC. Got the following answer:
Thanks for your email.
No, the desire does not have VOice to text, but as you can see from that website, it is supposed to.
We are currently working with the developers to find out what happened. We don;t know why it was removed, or whether it was done purposefully or by accident, and investigating what we need to do to get it back.
I am sure it will be released as an update in the very near future, but at present it is missing from HTC SEnse.
I apologise for the mixup and can assure you that it is supposed to be there and we are working on it now.
Best regards,
Pete W
HTC
M Dawg said:
Wanna shed some light on this whole V2T.
I sent an email to HTC. Got the following answer:
Thanks for your email.
No, the desire does not have VOice to text, but as you can see from that website, it is supposed to.
We are currently working with the developers to find out what happened. We don;t know why it was removed, or whether it was done purposefully or by accident, and investigating what we need to do to get it back.
I am sure it will be released as an update in the very near future, but at present it is missing from HTC SEnse.
I apologise for the mixup and can assure you that it is supposed to be there and we are working on it now.
Best regards,
Pete W
HTC
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That is strange I thought it was supposed to be an exclusive feature of the Nexus ones in addition to the noise cancellation? that is why the HTC doesnt have the voice search like the nexus ones??
Voice dialling on HTC Desire
Right then, this is what i need, can anyone point me in the right direction, and if you offer me advice id very much appreciate it being proven and tested to work as im new here and dont yet know my a from my elbow. I need an application that will allow me to speak a command such as dial number and then it will allow me to dial a number that is not stored anywhere on the phone. there is an app called choice dialler but its not good, in so far as it wont let me dial UK numbers and only stores 10 digits, which Uk numbers arent!!! I rather get the impression this app was designed for our american brethren as it accepts 911 but never heard of 999. When i try to call a uk number i try by sayiing "Dial, plus 44, followed by the number but it only works 1 time out of a hundred and i do mean that literally.. Anyone help me please, woud be appreciated, as am on the road 99 per cent of the day and cant have a handsfree kit installed as in mostly a different car every day....
I'm looking for a voice dialler aswell. I think it may need a seperate post to get some info.
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I'm looking for a voice dialler aswell. I think it may need a seperate post to get some info.
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Well actually, install the Voice Search apk and it gives you google search with voice but additionally, if you hold down the search hardware button it searches google as well without going to the app BUT if you hold it and say for example "call <persons name> mobile" it will actually call them. Is that not good enough?
On a side note, it recognises my voice great!
I am quite frustrated, and wondering if there is a problem with my phone, or if I could have made some sort of unintentional setting change for my SGS2. I have had the phone for 2 weeks with no problems, but all of a sudden today my Google Voice Actions and Vlingo will not work. From my best assessment, it is not hearing my voice or not hearing it well enough to make anything out. Whenever I speak something into the phone -- and I have done this on this phone and my HD2 so I'm not new to speaking my requests -- it will sometimes immediately come back and say "No Matches Found". Once in a while it will open a browser window, and try to searc for 1 or two or three letter gibberish words: i.e. "bh", or "fns", or "g". It certainly does NOT recognize ANYTHING it used to! Just for fun, I downloaded JEANNIE, which seems to be another voice-action-type program. That also does not work. The microphone icon doesn't seem to light up much (which further makes me think it cannot "hear" me, and the program responds with, "pardon?" Phone calls I make are ok -- people can hear me -- just not these programs!! IS there a setting that I could have changed that prevents the programs from hearing my voice?? BTW, I did try to go to the Voice Actions app in MANAGE PROGRAMS and erased data, but that didn't help.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, otherwise I'll take it back to the store and see if they'll exchange it or know what's going on!
Thank you all for your reading this and for your help!
Wingmann
Did you reboot or at least kill and restart the app?
uninstall it and then reintall it i just tested mines and i hav no issuses but ive only had my sinse thursday plus i rooted mines and removed most of the carrier apps
dude vlingo sucks man, the galaxy version is so much better
Does anyone know how, when in car mode, to get VLingo to navigate to a contact (say Home, for example)? You would think this would be a basic function for a hands-free program in car mode, but I can't figure it out. Everytime I say "Navigate to Home", it tries to take me to some Home bakery or something like that. Can I even navigate to an address I give it with this thing?
I know it's been overhyped, but Siri is the one thing from that fruit phone I wish this phone had. Don't get me wrong. I was so close to getting the "other" phone, but opted for the Samsung instead. And after playing around with the iphone, I'm glad I did. But Vlingo seriously makes me want to punch it in the screen sometimes.
Well, I figured out how to get Vlingo to go home. Go to Vlingo->Settings->Voice talk Settings->Home address and type in your home address. Now you can say "Navigate to Home".
But after using it more, I see more problems with it. Vlingo can navigate to restaurants, but not contacts. It can call contacts, but not restaurants. WTF Vlingo?!? Can we get all of the above please in the near future?
OK guys, before I rant at Google, does anyone else's phone do this?
I tap the little mic icon on the keyboard and speak. It gets the first three or four words, but every word after that is just a name from my contacts.
If I switch it to US English it works fine but I have to talk with an American accent to get it to recognise my speech.
I've reported it Here. Please star it if you want Google to resolve the issue.
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OK guys, before I rant at Google, does anyone else's phone do this?
I tap the little mic icon on the keyboard and speak. It gets the first three or four words, but every word after that is just a name from my contacts.
If I switch it to US English it works fine but I have to talk with an American accent to get it to recognise my speech.
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Just tried the phrase
Testing speech to text to see if it works.
First time major fail .... including throwing a contact name in
Second attempt with tv on mute and it worked perfectly.
Im an ex southerner so dont have much accent
Mine is set to English UK and I don't even know some of the words it thinks I am saying.
Don't even think it is english
you guys just have to learn the correct way to speak English
wilbur-force said:
Just tried the phrase
Testing speech to text to see if it works.
First time major fail .... including throwing a contact name in
Second attempt with tv on mute and it worked perfectly.
Im an ex southerner so dont have much accent
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Try more than a few words as it only seems to glitch badly after the first sentence. Try talking to it like Duarte does and mine just chucks out a list of assorted forenames and surnames.
Annoying as I could talk to the old version like I was having a conversation.
I've reported it Here. Please start it if you want Google to resolve the issue.
Yeah absolutely, after more than a few words it seems to massively prioritise contact entries.
For example, "It's so cool" became "Richard Poole", which although a similar sound at the end (and a compliment for Mr. Poole) didn't seme remotely connected. And every word after were combinations of contact names. I find I have to keep doing short sentences/sentence fragments at a time, which appears to ruin the point of speech-to-text.
Luckily I'm not a big fan of talking at my phone. Hence Siri not being a selling point on the 4S for me.
It's a bit hit or miss but I'm not getting any contact names appearing.
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I'm finding my galaxy nexus much worse at recognising my voice than my HD2 running gingerbread was. I'd say with that I got about a 95% accuracy rate vs the Galaxy Nexus getting maybe 50% if that.
rashad1 said:
you guys just have to learn the correct way to speak English
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That is the correct way to speak English
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I'm having no issues with the voice recognition at all. No contact names coming up, even after several sentences. I think it's more accurate too (for my voice, anyway), though it still gets it wrong sometimes!
Being able to dictate punctuation is very cool.
I had a little try with the speech to text and it was pretty poor. I hadn't put my contacts in yet but I was on wifi. It got most of the words wrong and lagged quite a lot. I'll test it a bit more extensively once I get my replacement phone
My Galaxy S was far better at recognising my accent.
Can someone else test this, I think it is a bug..
click voice button and say 'text [someones name on your contact list]'
When the screen pops up to enter a text message there is no way of inputting any text.
Ive had no problems with lagging it works ok for me when using for google search for the odd couple of words, but trying to dictate a sentence i've never got 100% accuracy.
I'm from saaarf laaandun no one has a clue what I say most of the time
So talk to text has no chance
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for me some times its excellent and sometimes its useless and i get loads of contacts names that sound nothing like what i have said like some of you.
If there is any background noise at all i usually find it doesnt know what im saying. Some words for me it just wont pick up no matter how many times i try... the one that comes to mind is 'sure' it always comes up with 'so' lol.
Does the speech to text feature require WiFi or a data conection to work? I don't have the Nexus yet.
Didn't want to open a new thread so I asked here.
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Chris95X8 said:
Does the speech to text feature require WiFi or a data conection to work? I don't have the Nexus yet.
Didn't want to open a new thread so I asked here.
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No it doesnt.
Mark.
mskip said:
No it doesnt.
Mark.
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It does on mine?
I'm also finding it works perfectly so far, even a long text message came out without any issues
i just tested this with 3 or 4 rather long sentences. I have a pretty weird accent (mix of Southern, central and northern regional English) and it never once matched anything i said to a contact.
it messed a few words up (understandably), but i'm not experiencing this particular bug.
In general the voice recognition is good but there are a full words it always gets wrong e.g. it wont get my wifes name right so I can't voice call her. Is there a way of training google now to get this right? I have set the langauge to my country and this helped alot with other words and locations but just doesn't get them all.
Any help here or am I stuck with only the options google think I said?
Seconded
johnw230873 said:
In general the voice recognition is good but there are a full words it always gets wrong e.g. it wont get my wifes name right so I can't voice call her. Is there a way of training google now to get this right? I have set the langauge to my country and this helped alot with other words and locations but just doesn't get them all.
Any help here or am I stuck with only the options google think I said?
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I second this, My wifes name is not recognised and I have tried adding a phonetic name ( tho it then displays this as the contact name :/ ) even downloading the language pack for the country her name is from! nothing! so annoying. this must be a common problem? but theres no posts about it, this makes me think that I'm thick and can't find something that most people think is obvious. tried adding a nick name of 'the wife' which google voice would hear correctly but only do a web search??? fortunately I have an S3 and S-voice will recognise the name but I was hoping to switch.
btw running 4.1 omega rom on S3 and changing my wifes name to Donna via Deed poll...
Same Here
There must not be a solution to this, which is very disappointing. The new voice recognition is cheap for voice calling, especially since my wife is the primary one that I call. :-\
I'm guessing no one found a resolution for this, because I am having the exact same problem.
Save you wife as 'wife', e.g. 'phone wife'
Job done!
johnw230873 said:
In general the voice recognition is good but there are a full words it always gets wrong e.g. it wont get my wifes name right so I can't voice call her. Is there a way of training google now to get this right? I have set the langauge to my country and this helped alot with other words and locations but just doesn't get them all.
Any help here or am I stuck with only the options google think I said?
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Try going to Settings/Language & Input/Voice Search then tick the box for Personalized recognition.
Try saying "launch utter"
The utter app is way more responsive, if you can get over the fugliness...
ebagdirtbike said:
Try going to Settings/Language & Input/Voice Search then tick the box for Personalized recognition.
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Except Personalized Recognition is missing on both Nexus's that I have, and has been known to be missing on other devices too:
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/mobile/rbEGC4jWzaU
I haven't found why yet. CM 10.1 in the case of the Gnexes.
Hey everyone!
I've now had my Note 7 since launch on the 19th. Its a fairly fantastic phone so far. With a few software issues. I kinda knew there were going to be issues like this, which is why I disallowed the OS upgrade on my S5.
So here it is. It seems that Samsung has decided they are the end all, be all for the voice input on the phone. You can still use Google search for strictly Google functions. I.e. "Okay Google" search bar and internet search functions. However, now it seems that you MUST use the S Voice input for the keyboard accessible voice input. Not a problem you say?
Well for someone like me, it becomes a major problem when Samsung has decided that using curse words isn't allowed. And there seems to be no setting to allow curse words in this new release from Samsung. I am not going to lie, I curse a lot in text messages and this makes the speech to text function almost completely unusable for me. (Maybe not for you, but it does for me.)
I have searched everywhere and can NOT find a way to disable this childish censorship implemented by Samsung. (Apparently swearing is a "no no" and we are not allowed to say "no no"s on our Samsung devices?)
I have attached screenshots of things I have already tried. I am open to any more actually useful suggestions by those who are providing more than just upping their post count. If no one can find a solution for this, then at least there is a place on the internet that others can come to see they are not alone in this software nightmare and maybe, just maybe Samsung will notice?
I greatly thank everyone for your time on this!
-C
Please ignore this new thread/delete it (dont know how).
Just found this thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-7/help/google-voice-samsung-keyboard-t3443428
(The search on this site sucks)
Sorry everyone.
-C