Hi, I wondered if anyone has come across an app which will speak alerts to me?
Perhaps something like "Text message from Jemima Puddleduck" and "Email from John Doe".
And preferably in a human sounding voice, not that abomination that is the standard Android text-to-speech!
Any ideas?
check out "Vlingo" or "edwin"
Just tried both, but neither does what I want :-(
setspeed said:
Hi, I wondered if anyone has come across an app which will speak alerts to me?
Perhaps something like "Text message from Jemima Puddleduck" and "Email from John Doe".
And preferably in a human sounding voice, not that abomination that is the standard Android text-to-speech!
Any ideas?
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you won't find any. An app would be alot more than the usuall 0.5 to 2mb. My reason for saying that you won't find any is because the app would have to know every name (and surname!) in the world, also any nickname etc! You'd proboly find that would tell who it is just by spelling the name out letter by letter, and even that wouldn't be very smooth (tone between letters and speed).
hope this helps! good luck!
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you won't find any. An app would be alot more than the usuall 0.5 to 2mb. My reason for saying that you won't find any is because the app would have to know every name (and surname!) in the world, also any nickname etc! You'd proboly find that would tell who it is just by spelling the name out letter by letter, and even that wouldn't be very smooth (tone between letters and speed).
hope this helps! good luck!
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I don't know if you're right. I don't think it would take that much space. Sure it wouldn't fit in 2megs, but I reckon fifty megs would be sufficient for all known English names. That's just a figure pulled out of my arse btw!
How about a custom message tone for a person that is a recording you have made. You would have to record a message for each person you want this for, Not the most user friendly way but will do what you want.
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setspeed said:
I don't know if you're right. I don't think it would take that much space. Sure it wouldn't fit in 2megs, but I reckon fifty megs would be sufficient for all known English names. That's just a figure pulled out of my arse btw!
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woow, no need for that kind of sh!t anyways.. what if you have someone saved in as a nickname (Ginger, Gypsy, my 2 favorite contacts ;D) then it would not tell you who was calling you cos the app would not know how to pernounce it..
hope this helps! good luck!
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woow, no need for that kind of sh!t anyways.. what if you have someone saved in as a nickname (Ginger, Gypsy, my 2 favorite contacts ;D) then it would not tell you who was calling you cos the app would not know how to pernounce it..
hope this helps! good luck!
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I wasn't being rude/sarcastic so please don't take offence!
I literally meant that I was just guessing how much space would be required
Use this app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750721
It should work fine
Let us know your experience!
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Use this app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750721
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+1 for Saymyname Dessert, I love it!
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I wasn't being rude/sarcastic so please don't take offence!
I literally meant that I was just guessing how much space would be required
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sorry, I'm not exacly English anyway, so I don't understand the meaning of some lines
One of the best apps out there is called Tasker. It can do everything! One of it's tricks is you can set it up to read your text messages out.
Is quite tricky to get used to at first, but once you 'click' with it, its fantastic.
It costs £4 (which is a bargain IMO) but there is also a free 1 week trial.
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Agree with Tasker, I am using it
BUT .... BUT ...
It does NOT have this say NAME feature.
Tasker can only say the phone number.
The developer plan to add this feature in the next release ... Which we don't know when ... or NEVER
wnp_79 said:
One of the best apps out there is called Tasker. It can do everything! One of it's tricks is you can set it up to read your text messages out.
Is quite tricky to get used to at first, but once you 'click' with it, its fantastic.
It costs £4 (which is a bargain IMO) but there is also a free 1 week trial.
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Use this app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750721
It should work fine
Let us know your experience!
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Nice one! This does pretty much what I want, and you can customise it quite a bit too - thanks very much
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Okay Here's The Deal... i was speaking to a friend of mine and he has an "Apple Iphone" and on his phone he has this program that teaches you how to say words in different Language's or even sentences the program speaks it out for you i was wondering if there's an app like that out there for the dash... also would any know of any website that has a list of different apps for the dash? thanks to anyone who helps me out.
RussianSolja said:
Okay Here's The Deal... i was speaking to a friend of mine and he has an "Apple Iphone" and on his phone he has this program that teaches you how to say words in different Language's or even sentences the program speaks it out for you i was wondering if there's an app like that out there for the dash... also would any know of any website that has a list of different apps for the dash? thanks to anyone who helps me out.
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Check your PM (Private Messages).
is there a list?
hawee said:
is there a list?
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yeah there is a list of apps... but cant quite find the app that im quite looking for on that site... anyone else think they can help me out?
This isn't really a Desire specific annoyance, I think it's since Android 2.1
All contacts with the same name would automatically merge on the phone, although they are different people (with the same name)
Does anyone know how to stop the contacts merging ?
You mean,they have same name and surname?
In that case,you can use their miidle name or nickname.
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DilbertZG said:
You mean,they have same name and surname?
In that case,you can use their miidle name or nickname.
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But the database is used for business so they don't have nicknames and a lot of them don't have middle names, so the only way is if there's a way to turn it off or remove the code to do it
let me try to sum what you are trying to say
1. Xavier Spencer 12321456
2. Xavier Spencer 13546798
i dont really think this is a problem "frankly". just my opinion ....
shoey-n said:
But the database is used for business so they don't have nicknames and a lot of them don't have middle names, so the only way is if there's a way to turn it off or remove the code to do it
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I'm not being funny...but exactly how many people with the same first AND last name do you have on your phone?
Seems like a pretty rare problem. I've seen people with the same name on the Exchange server at work and they all then have to provide a middle initial. Failing that we all have our departments abbreviation at the end of our name.
dexteral said:
let me try to sum what you are trying to say
1. Xavier Spencer 12321456
2. Xavier Spencer 13546798
i dont really think this is a problem "frankly". just my opinion ....
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Pretty sure the question is, "does anyone know how to stop the contacts merging", NOT do u agree this is a problem...
I had problem with Name and Name*, they were merged so i ended up sending nasty message to neighbor instead my girlfriend...
GaelForce said:
Pretty sure the question is, "does anyone know how to stop the contacts merging", NOT do u agree this is a problem...
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I am pretty sure that this is not a problem. I don't see how anyone can tell by the name that it is a different person if it is the same name . Unless u are a psychic
dexteral said:
I am pretty sure that this is not a problem. I don't see how anyone can tell by the name that it is a different person if it is the same name . Unless u are a psychic
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I got contact pictures for every person, so yes I do know the difference between them, but when they merge I can no longer recognise each person
And you all have your opinion whether you think this is an issue or not, but I'm just simply asking does any of you know how to stop it, I don't care whether you think there's a need to stop it
Just put the company name as Lastname.
So Mr Joe Another from Contoso Corp would be
First Name: Joe
Last Name: Another Contoso
Whilst Joe Another from Kebabs Limited would be
Joe
Another Kebabs
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I wish I could do that with them all, I'd be happy with that, but my dad has the same annoyance and he has a bit of OCD so it's all got to be perfect
If no one knows, I'll try opening up the APK later and try stopping it myself
dexteral said:
I am pretty sure that this is not a problem.
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Once again you appear to have missed the question...
Anyway I think the point is that most non-android handsets would ask if you wanted to merge the contacts or create them separately instead of assuming they should automatically be merged. This isn't specific to just business contacts, my father and I have the same name (which by no means is an uncommon occurrence) so anyone with an Android handset would have both our numbers in the one contact. This is far from ideal and although there may be workarounds such as nicknames, there should be a better solution.
Try this:
Create new contact with same name.
Save contact then open it.
You should see link icon in the top right corner.Click on it,then select Clear suggestions.
After that,you will have 2 contacts with same name.
Just tested for myself. It works!
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DilbertZG said:
Try this:
Create new contact with same name.
Save contact then open it.
You should see link icon in the top right corner.Click on it,then select Clear suggestions.
After that,you will have 2 contacts with same name.
Just tested for myself. It works!
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I'm kind of not stock anymore
I'm running stock android so the contacts doesn't have link
Thanks for the suggestion though
http://www.conceivablytech.com/7066/products/google-quietly-releases-docs-for-android
Download Google Docs in the Market
I am happy now
Is this an app or is it over the web?
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Is this an app or is it over the web?
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It says right in the linked article, that its a Market app. Or you could have just went to the Market and looked.
Google=win
G2 running Xboarder56's v1.9.5 Stock Gingerbread
Yeah I was stoked about it at first, but this app royally blows. It's seriously NO different than opening your browser on the phone and going to docs.google.com. You still can't edit formulas in spreadsheets (a must since I do my budget on there), and the editing interface is just as bad as the web page, in that you click on a line, have to edit only 1 line at a time and have to save it after editing. Why not just let us edit the cells individually? Thanks for finally getting around to mediocrity Google.
Gwanatu said:
Yeah I was stoked about it at first, but this app royally blows. It's seriously NO different than opening your browser on the phone and going to docs.google.com. You still can't edit formulas in spreadsheets (a must since I do my budget on there), and the editing interface is just as bad as the web page, in that you click on a line, have to edit only 1 line at a time and have to save it after editing. Why not just let us edit the cells individually? Thanks for finally getting around to mediocrity Google.
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I have to admit that I haven't really explored the app very well. But at least it is a start. Maybe make a comment on the app page and email them as to how they can make it better?
adamhlj said:
I have to admit that I haven't really explored the app very well. But at least it is a start. Maybe make a comment on the app page and email them as to how they can make it better?
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My problem with it is that it's literally no different than just opening Google Docs in your browser. I'm just not sure why it was even made if they were going to do it like this, that's all.
how do you even delete documents you dont want on here???
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how do you even delete documents you dont want on here???
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I can't find a way to. Yet another reason why this app is useless
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How horrible. Hearing this, I'm definitely un installing
Gwanatu said:
I can't find a way to. Yet another reason why this app is useless
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Hey they updated it so that docs can be deleted. Now just to add the formula functionality and ill be happy.
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The app is supposed to be able to perform OCR on text photographed with the phone. Anyone get this to work very well? Every time I've tried it (on different forms of source text) it just one line of the text, or a few scattered letters. Seems like it could be a handy function, if it worked.
redpoint73 said:
The app is supposed to be able to perform OCR on text photographed with the phone. Anyone get this to work very well? Every time I've tried it (on different forms of source text) it just one line of the text, or a few scattered letters. Seems like it could be a handy function, if it worked.
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Ah yes, that is a VERY useful thing! Glad to see that there are indeed more features. I just tried it and it's actually very good; I just scanned a page from a book, and although it has a few odd formatting problems, the text was almost perfect. Nice job Google.
Wouldn’t it be a good idea for someone to compile a list of the available ROM’s with their differing attributes for our N7105.
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For instance I have installed eight different custom Rom’s on my N7105 in vain, looking for a ROM that has multi window, and a proper document spell checker built in, that’s one that underscores all misspelt words in a sentence in red, and with suggested corrections. It would save a lot of frustration if we could have a ROM comparison chart . . . Please?
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No, please don't do this. Thanks.
richardsoffice said:
Wouldn’t it be a good idea for someone to compile a list of the available ROM’s with their differing attributes for our N7105.
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For instance I have installed eight different custom Rom’s on my N7105 in vain, looking for a ROM that has multi window, and a proper document spell checker built in, that’s one that underscores all misspelt words in a sentence in red, and with suggested corrections. It would save a lot of frustration if we could have a ROM comparison chart . . . Please?
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why don't you volunteer since it's your idea?
mrjayviper said:
why don't you volunteer since it's your idea?
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+1 :good:
It doesn't do any harm to give it a shot..
Wrong section~
ROM comparison chart
Well I’m not as experienced or knowledgeable as most of the contributors here, however I am prepared to start it off by putting an primary list up as long as you guys help out by correcting, adding and editing this list. So should I start it ?
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? what section should this be in then?
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Why do you have to compare hard work done by devs publicly? You can use some roms and figure out which one is your favorite.
Don't do this... Bad idea... You will hack off the devs... I've already had enough with my MiniTAB ROM as well...
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No list then!
weeo said:
Don't do this... Bad idea... You will hack off the devs... I've already had enough with my MiniTAB ROM as well...
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watsa said:
Why do you have to compare hard work done by devs publicly? You can use some roms and figure out which one is your favorite.
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OK yes point taken, and I will take no part in making a list. But I only wanted a list of the attributes that came with each ROM I did not want comments of any sort in this list, after all mostly each developer posts a compiled list of what is in their Rom in the first place and some items will be more important than others to an individual.
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Theres just no point. Even with a list of features you wont know what you will like until you try it, then we go into opinions. Best thing to do is just browse over the roms, find a few roms with features you like, then give them a test. Comparison charts just start more trouble then its worth, Dont take it the wrong way Good luck in finding your rom!
Can’t find ROM with spell checking
Yes I accept what you and others say here, but having read what information is available on sixteen ROMs so far, and also taken the time to install and then remove eight of them in search of a whole page Spell Checker, it is very frustrating that none mention if this is included or not, and I need this because my spelling is atrocious.
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richardsoffice said:
Yes I accept what you and others say here, but having read what information is available on sixteen ROMs so far, and also taken the time to install and then remove eight of them in search of a whole page Spell Checker, it is very frustrating that none mention if this is included or not, and I need this because my spelling is atrocious.
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Bro, I'm Taylor Swift. Better take my advice...
Actually do what you like... I just wanted to say I'm Taylor Swift.
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weeo said:
Bro, I'm Taylor Swift. Better take my advice...
Actually do what you like... I just wanted to say I'm Taylor Swift.
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Taylor Swift; well if that’s true why don’t you come over to Ipswich and see me it’s only an hour’s drive from where you are. :laugh:
richardsoffice said:
Taylor Swift; well if that’s true why don’t you come over to Ipswich and see me it’s only an hour’s drive from where you are. :laugh:
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You sure you can handle a song about you that will get you hate?
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richardsoffice said:
Yes I accept what you and others say here, but having read what information is available on sixteen ROMs so far, and also taken the time to install and then remove eight of them in search of a whole page Spell Checker, it is very frustrating that none mention if this is included or not, and I need this because my spelling is atrocious.
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Why cant you download one of the play store and use that? Is that so hard? Once you find the app you like you can add it to every Rom you use. Then you wouldn't be so frustrated.
no such App available on Play Store
scarecrow2012 said:
Why cant you download one of the play store and use that? Is that so hard? Once you find the app you like you can add it to every Rom you use. Then you wouldn't be so frustrated.
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Wish I could, there just is no such App available on Play Store; one that underscores all misspelt words in red that you’ve typed in, and with suggested corrections. If I am wrong please tell me as you say this would be the answer to my frustration.
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Wish I could, there just is no such App available on Play Store; one that underscores all misspelt words in red that you’ve typed in, and with suggested corrections. If I am wrong please tell me as you say this would be the answer to my frustration.
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https://play.google.com/store/search?q=spell+check&c=apps
Otherwise use a keyboard with a good dictionary, swype or swiftkey
if that doesnt work try a program like this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.usr.dict.mgr&hl=en to edit the dictionary,
scarecrow2012 said:
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=spell+check&c=apps
Otherwise use a keyboard with a good dictionary, swype or swiftkey
if that doesnt work try a program like this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.usr.dict.mgr&hl=en to edit the dictionary,
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Thanks for the suggestion but this would be very inferior to what I have been used to, see screen shot below.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1655833&d=1358525739
richardsoffice said:
Thanks for the suggestion but this would be very inferior to what I have been used to, see screen shot below.
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As scarecrow2012 mentioned, a simple choice of keyboard app will definitely help. For my case, Swype is doing me every bit of justice for spelling.
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Gandicela said:
As scarecrow2012 mentioned, a simple choice of keyboard app will definitely help. For my case, Swype is doing me every bit of justice for spelling.
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Swype; Swype Keboard no longer comes up on Play Store for me, strange because I do think I remember looking at that once, but if I remember right it didn’t check a whole sentence, after I had finished writing instead I had to make corrections at the typing of each word, very ‘frustrating’ I would prefer to spell check at the end, I need to get my thoughts down before I forget what I want to say, (give me a break here im 64 years old) Ok so I could get by with a swiftkey keyboard but I’m loking to get the best ROM for me not just make do, after all thats why I Rooted and am trying different Rom’s, otherwise I would just have kept the phones Samsung Rom.
As the title says.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.talk
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As the title says.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.talk
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In my opinion one of the most stupid app form Google. No way to change online status or see who's online are you kidding me?? Only log-out. Old talk was lot better.
ashik992 said:
In my opinion one of the most stupid app form Google. No way to change online status or see who's online are you kidding me?? Only log-out. Old talk was lot better.
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Uhm, maybe you are right. But what I see is that Google is shifting the talk to the whatsapp/line/bbm -alike messaging. To think of it, I'd say it's not a bad move though as there's proven track record from the mentioned communication app even though the lack of "see who's online" option.
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Uhm, maybe you are right. But what I see is that Google is shifting the talk to the whatsapp/line/bbm -alike messaging. To think of it, I'd say it's not a bad move though as there's proven track record from the mentioned communication app even though the lack of "see who's online" option.
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Maybe works for others but not for me.
First time it's quite confused but after it's very intuitive :good: