I decided to try Google Voice with my EVO since I am running an AOSP rom. The "speech-to-text" service is so pathetically bad, it is worth a snicker.
I can only assume they are using some sort of algorithm from 1972. The text is so garbled and unintelligible that I honestly cannot even begin to guess at what the user is trying to say. You would think that Google would attempt to at least guess at actual English words. Instead the typical message reads:
"ick blarney scopin on my biscuit it flat bobby earnest blackto."
Seriously Google? The Sprint Voice-to-Text is pretty close to flawless. This is beyond useless. If anyone knows a way to fix this, please let me know
yeah, my text voice mails are goofy too, maybe 20% accuracy, haven't tried the sprint to compare though, I like free
You think THAT'S bad... haha.. I had a friend butt dial me once... I saved the GV transcript. I've always found GV to be way worse than Sprint's transcription but this one takes the cake...
"11/14/10 10:19 AM 4 months ago
Hey, Hello Hello. Hello. No, ohh No, I want to Yeah, bye bye. Bert. Well, Okay bye. But. I think you're call, hey bye. Hello. Okay bye. 4 okay bye bye okay bye bye. But I'll room. All times but cos, hey. So I'm going to but, Mr, we did. This is me. But the system. Hey, this is okay but dot com. Hello. Hey, in. Hello, hey. Well, the You could, hey. Hey, okay bye HI alright. Also. You All, alright, hey. But hey, okay. This is. But Yeah, it's also anyway. But OR. Yeah it's a But bye bye. But HI But no and what So. So if it HI Why hi hello."
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"11/14/10 10:19 AM 4 months ago
Hey, Hello Hello. Hello. No, ohh No, I want to Yeah, bye bye. Bert. Well, Okay bye. But. I think you're call, hey bye. Hello. Okay bye. 4 okay bye bye okay bye bye. But I'll room. All times but cos, hey. So I'm going to but, Mr, we did. This is me. But the system. Hey, this is okay but dot com. Hello. Hey, in. Hello, hey. Well, the You could, hey. Hey, okay bye HI alright. Also. You All, alright, hey. But hey, okay. This is. But Yeah, it's also anyway. But OR. Yeah it's a But bye bye. But HI But no and what So. So if it HI Why hi hello."
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>_< lmao! 10charmanders
Yeah it sounds like imac from 1990's lol
Personally, my google voice is 90% accurate.
teh roxxorz said:
Personally, my google voice is 90% accurate.
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+1 generally it's only my mom or dad calling me to leave messages (everyone else I talk to texts). Certain words are missed or dual words get mixed up: Syllables become Sill Ables (not literally, just giving an idea) but I have no problem with it.
Of course that's only to get the gist of a message, like to see if it is important or not. Maybe you should listen to your message. At the very least mark it as unhelpful. Google can't improve the algorithm if they don't know it's not working. You may have to log on to your Google voice account on a computer to mark it, I'm not positive as I don't have any messages to test right now.
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+1 generally it's only my mom or dad calling me to leave messages (everyone else I talk to texts). Certain words are missed or dual words get mixed up: Syllables become Sill Ables (not literally, just giving an idea) but I have no problem with it.
Of course that's only to get the gist of a message, like to see if it is important or not. Maybe you should listen to your message. At the very least mark it as unhelpful. Google can't improve the algorithm if they don't know it's not working. You may have to log on to your Google voice account on a computer to mark it, I'm not positive as I don't have any messages to test right now.
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I agree. It's not perfect, but it's usable.
I see Sprint's voice to text as better...but still not 100%... but I'm not willing to pay the $1.99 / month for it.
With all that said, it's not hard to just click the voicemail and take the 20 seconds to listen to it.
i tried it a few times and rather just listen to messages. Its soo wacked out most of the time I can do without.
My friend called me from his Jeep once and it picked up the rumbling of the engine revving and the whole message just said "good good good good good" over and over again.
My google voice is pretty accurate. It only has issues if someone calls to give me a confirmation number or any other number. You have to take into account the people who call you. Not everyone has a clear voice.
Call yourself and leave yourself a VM. It will be much better.
Yeah, mine has been pretty terrible, too. Of course, MOST people stumble in speech and say, "uh... um... uh... like..." And that really kills the whole transcription.
Mine's pretty bad too, but it's good enough that I can usually figure out what the person actually said. Also, the transcriptions are usually pretty funny, so I don't mind that much.
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Mine's pretty bad too, but it's good enough that I can usually figure out what the person actually said. Also, the transcriptions are usually pretty funny, so I don't mind that much.
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Yeah, it does get pretty funny sometimes with what odd things the system will come up with as a translation. Then you go and actually listen to the message and you're thinking, "What... how did it think they said that!"
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its garbage, unless your a member, i can't even figure out what i gotta type in the with stupid kitten pictures :|
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its garbage, unless your a member, i can't even figure out what i gotta type in the with stupid kitten pictures :|
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Even though this is slightly off course for this forum...I gotta sympathize with you. I DESPISE RapidShare for music downloads and especially software downloads! That one file per 72 minutes crap has got to go... And what IS the deal with those "kitten encryptions"?!
I 2nd that, Man I've had to wait like 5 times in a row for a download, because I couldn't get the kitten encryption answer correctly, I mean can you guys ALWAYS tell what the hell is behind each letter/number?!?
Thats why i uploaded most ROMS that i can find to MediaFire.
Dig and find
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its garbage, unless your a member, i can't even figure out what i gotta type in the with stupid kitten pictures :|
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Well I guess if you can't even figure out the correct name of the service "Rapidshare" not "rapidfire", we can't expect you to figure out the kittens, now can we ? lol...
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Well I guess if you can't even figure out the correct name of the service "Rapidshare" not "rapidfire", we can't expect you to figure out the kittens, now can we ? lol...
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Man Organic, you're just having a field day with this guy aren't you...lol
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Well I guess if you can't even figure out the correct name of the service "Rapidshare" not "rapidfire", we can't expect you to figure out the kittens, now can we ? lol...
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I didn't even pick up on the use of "Rapidfire"! LOL
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Well I guess if you can't even figure out the correct name of the service "Rapidshare" not "rapidfire", we can't expect you to figure out the kittens, now can we ? lol...
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hahahahah poor kid, let the kid be Organic
rapid fire lol
and DAMN THOSE PESKY KITTENS, who the hell made that thing? i swear - I get errors sometimes, even if it is right, it's so damn confusing, you gotta turn your head and what not sometimes to get it right, what a bloody PISS OFF !
well i'm not a kid, i'm an adult... regardless, he isn't really bothering me
anyone know how to get the OZ messanger to connect?
I didn't mean it in that way, poor kid as in poor you - not in a negative manner. If you would like me to say poor adult, no problem
haha I'm just joking man. It's all good. I hope I didn't bother you either.
go to search on the top button and type in OZ Messenger and you'll get the thread you're looking for. You def. need a data plan though.
Good Luck !
ya i got the data plan, i actually bought mundu when i had my last dash, i like it better, but it wont connect, neither will OZ
Did you check your gprs settings? See if your using the right settings. Maybe that could be the issue.
i used the connection wizard and double checked everything on the tmobile site
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i used the connection wizard and double checked everything on the tmobile site
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Sorry bro, I have no idea as I don't use a data plan and have never used OZ Messenger. Try the OZ Messenger thread, you'll get better luck there for sure
Vinter...you have to call your provider and tell them you cant receive MMS...they need to re enter you into their database.
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First, if I see another "use the search" reply I'm gonna flip out...unless it's sarcasm because of me typing that. I have searched...and search, and searched, and searched. Not just on xda either.
All I want to know, is if there is an app, free, not free - WHATEVER - that can be set to delete/reject texts and call from a phone number you enter into the program. I'm sure someone would suggest it, but changing my phone number isn't an option...so after about 150 texts from the most obnoxious, stuck up, self centered.....yeah.....in the world, I need a way to keep their texts (and calls, but especially texts) from coming through.
And please don't say it isn't possible, because it is. My old Samsung had exactly that feature and it wasn't HALF the phone the Rhodium is.
So please, if anyone knows of one, please tell me and accept my apologies if my post seems rather blunt... It's been a stressful day and I don't sugar coat what I say when I'm frustrated.
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First, if I see another "use the search" reply I'm gonna flip out...unless it's sarcasm because of me typing that. I have searched...and search, and searched, and searched. Not just on xda either.
All I want to know, is if there is an app, free, not free - WHATEVER - that can be set to delete/reject texts and call from a phone number you enter into the program. I'm sure someone would suggest it, but changing my phone number isn't an option...so after about 150 texts from the most obnoxious, stuck up, self centered.....yeah.....in the world, I need a way to keep their texts (and calls, but especially texts) from coming through.
And please don't say it isn't possible, because it is. My old Samsung had exactly that feature and it wasn't HALF the phone the Rhodium is.
So please, if anyone knows of one, please tell me and accept my apologies if my post seems rather blunt... It's been a stressful day and I don't sugar coat what I say when I'm frustrated.
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use the search button!!!! jk, look for pocket bouncer.it lets you put in numbers to block im pretty sure.
Lol, thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it out after I get back from my run.
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Lol, thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it out after I get back from my run.
-edit- looks like Pocket Call Bouncer is only for calls. Is there one for texts? Even if it lets it through and deletes immediately it I'd be happy.
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just call your service provider and have them do it.prolly the easiest way.
Just called them, didn't realize they could do that (Sprint couldn't when I worked for them). They want to charge me $5 a month to do it... I'm already paying too much for AT&T's lousy service that works less than half the time. Guess I'll just keep searching and pay their monthly fee as a last resort.
Thanks bud.
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Just called them, didn't realize they could do that (Sprint couldn't when I worked for them). They want to charge me $5 a month to do it... I'm already paying too much for AT&T's lousy service that works less than half the time. Guess I'll just keep searching and pay their monthly fee as a last resort.
Thanks bud.
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i just told them i wasnt gonna pay that and if they wanted to lose 3 customers over 5 bucks a month be my guest. they cracked. i pay them nothing{not to mention got a new phone for free!!}
I'll try that when I call them tomorrow... Been a frustrating day.
i used kaspersky mobile security about a month ago, they have a 30 day free trial. im not sure if it will block phone calls, but it has a black and white list for text messages. it got kind of annoying to accept the first text from each different person, but maybe there was a way to add your phone book, or only worry about the black list page. had lots of extra features too you might find interesting. let me know what you think and post back for other people who have the same question!!
Use the following cab, its blocks both calls n text
Thanks for those two replies. Got some testing to do now. Thanks again!
Can someone come up with a Text Message Algorithm, so that when my GF sends me one of those sappy, "Oh, I miss you so much!" or "My life would suck without you" that it will do an Auto search for the appropriate romantic reply and then send the reply per text message/email?
I get about 30 of those per day, and they are quite annoying. I want to respond something different, but I've learned you never tell a girl she is fat, even if she is fat!
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Can someone come up with a Text Message Algorithm, so that when my GF sends me one of those sappy, "Oh, I miss you so much!" or "My life would suck without you" that it will do an Auto search for the appropriate romantic reply and then send the reply per text message/email?
I get about 30 of those per day, and they are quite annoying. I want to respond something different, but I've learned you never tell a girl she is fat, even if she is fat!
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Tell her that having sex with her is like watching the same movie over and over (preferably Ground Hog's Day). You'll stop getting them....
Omfg, too funny.
I think handcent will let you make a list of canned responses. Not exactly what you asked for but it might be a little easier
Brutal-Force said:
Can someone come up with a Text Message Algorithm, so that when my GF sends me one of those sappy, "Oh, I miss you so much!" or "My life would suck without you" that it will do an Auto search for the appropriate romantic reply and then send the reply per text message/email?
I get about 30 of those per day, and they are quite annoying. I want to respond something different, but I've learned you never tell a girl she is fat, even if she is fat!
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hahahahaha
Best solution to a very interesting request.
IOInterrupt said:
Tell her that having sex with her is like watching the same movie over and over (preferably Ground Hog's Day). You'll stop getting them....
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IOInterrupt said:
Tell her that having sex with her is like watching the same movie over and over (preferably Ground Hog's Day). You'll stop getting them....
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ROFL!! I think you should just let her know that even though you are her hobby, that your hobby is your phone.
You gotta be kidding me... If she's sending you 30 pointless messages a day then just don't reply because it sounds like someone's already a little coocoo for her cocopuff (ie the OP).
Or use handcent as was suggested previously.
Or better yet, use the SMS spammer and just spam I love you to her in 10 second intervals 24 hours a day. Give her a taste of her own medicine.
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Tell her that having sex with her is like watching the same movie over and over (preferably Ground Hog's Day). You'll stop getting them....
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You'll probably stop getting quite a few things from her....
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Can someone come up with a Text Message Algorithm, so that when my GF sends me one of those sappy, "Oh, I miss you so much!" or "My life would suck without you" that it will do an Auto search for the appropriate romantic reply and then send the reply per text message/email?
I get about 30 of those per day, and they are quite annoying. I want to respond something different, but I've learned you never tell a girl she is fat, even if she is fat!
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Tell her she texts like an 18 year old girl, Why doesn't she _____ like one. You can fill in the blank.
I'm pretty sure you won't be getting any more messages after that one either.
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Or better yet, use the SMS spammer and just spam I love you to her in 10 second intervals 24 hours a day. Give her a taste of her own medicine.
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Now, that would be funny...
Housoft said:
Or better yet, use the SMS spammer and just spam I love you to her in 10 second intervals 24 hours a day. Give her a taste of her own medicine.
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Ding Ding Ding. We have a winner. I like this one the best.
Now.... where was the spamming program?
Hi has anybody thought about creating a program to allow video ringtones?
Not going to leave you hanging alone
I always wondered that I remember when camera phones were being blasted out a friend of mine had a Sprint Sanyo that had video ringtone that was the only phone I have seen do that. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Would be cool though to see a friend or someone on a video ringer moving and shaking.
yeah, it looks like the iPhone can do it. Hopefully WP7 will make it happen too..
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...37F167FD1A36A7AE1E6537&view=detail&FORM=VIRE5
AFAIK, MS don't provide (and I'm afraid will never provide) any low level phone API. So, the only hope is "freedom ROMs" from DFT...
why do you need video ringtones?
its absolutly nonsense. If someone calls me, my smartphone is in my pocket or lies somewhere on a table. The sound notification is enough, to know that somebody calls me. And it takes maybe 2 seconds to answer a call, so why watch 2 secs of a video
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why do you need video ringtones?
its absolutly nonsense. If someone calls me, my smartphone is in my pocket or lies somewhere on a table. The sound notification is enough, to know that somebody calls me. And it takes maybe 2 seconds to answer a call, so why watch 2 secs of a video
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First off, I'm not sure what's up your ass, but the word "need" was never used.
I thought it would he cool to have...no more to it!!!
2nd - Just because you don't want something doesn't make it nonsense. I'm quite sure there's some programs you would like to have that someone else has no desire for.
If you don't want something or agree w/ it, don't read the post, but please.....realize the world doesn't revolve around your opinion and just keep the uneeded ones to yourself..
Thanks
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First off, I'm not sure what's up your ass, but the word "need" was never used.
I thought it would he cool to have...no more to it!!!
2nd - Just because you don't want something doesn't make it nonsense. I'm quite sure there's some programs you would like to have that someone else has no desire for.
If you don't want something or agree w/ it, don't read the post, but please.....realize the world doesn't revolve around your opinion and just keep the uneeded ones to yourself..
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aha, but why should anybody work on it, when it's like a said, totally nonsense.
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yeah, it looks like the iPhone can do it. Hopefully WP7 will make it happen too..
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...37F167FD1A36A7AE1E6537&view=detail&FORM=VIRE5
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video ringtones work on iPhone because "MobileSubstrate" is working as a plugin to the springboard. It will not be possible to do anything like this on windows phone in the near future. hopes this answers your idea...
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aha, but why should anybody work on it, when it's like a said, totally nonsense.
Well again...just because you don't want it doesn't make it nonsense...you need to get out of that bubble you live in and realize there's so much more than YOU on this planet...
video ringtones work on iPhone because "MobileSubstrate" is working as a plugin to the springboard. It will not be possible to do anything like this on windows phone in the near future. hopes this answers your idea...
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Thank you, this does help me understand my idea and makes a lot more sense than your previous answer.
Maybe sometime down the road it will be possible..
It is very possible and I'll love to have it, seem like it would be a major battery leach though
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It is very possible and I'll love to have it, seem like it would be a major battery leach though
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Same here. Yeah, it prob. would drain the hell out of the battery.
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why do you need video ringtones?
its absolutly nonsense. If someone calls me, my smartphone is in my pocket or lies somewhere on a table. The sound notification is enough, to know that somebody calls me. And it takes maybe 2 seconds to answer a call, so why watch 2 secs of a video
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yea.. sounds to me like just a waste of space too...
I unfortunately own the dreaded bugged Dell Venue Pro. On the plus side though, I have gotten to experience the amazing WinMo7 OS. I love it. I will stick with it when I move on to the next phone and just avoid the con-artists known as Dell.
With that said, one of the very few things that has let me down with WinMo7 and the Mango update, is the speech to text feature. I find it ridiculously inaccurate. I would say it works at about a 5% success rate and is so far off most of the time it is comical.
I was curious if everyone else is having great success with this feature or if it is just me (could be something with my voice or even could just be another bug with the Venue Pro Microphone). Would like to hear how the feature is working for everyone else. Thanks.
English is not my native langauge but it get most of my speech correct. So I have no problem with it.
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I unfortunately own the dreaded bugged Dell Venue Pro. On the plus side though, I have gotten to experience the amazing WinMo7 OS. I love it. I will stick with it when I move on to the next phone and just avoid the con-artists known as Dell.
With that said, one of the very few things that has let me down with WinMo7 and the Mango update, is the speech to text feature. I find it ridiculously inaccurate. I would say it works at about a 5% success rate and is so far off most of the time it is comical.
I was curious if everyone else is having great success with this feature or if it is just me (could be something with my voice or even could just be another bug with the Venue Pro Microphone). Would like to hear how the feature is working for everyone else. Thanks.
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First of all, as a sidenote, it's Windows Phone, not Windows Mobile. Anyways, text to speech worked pretty well the few times I used it. I noticed that the more clear I speak, the better it recognizes what I say. So no dialects, no mumbling.. I barely use it since I couldn't figure out how to use punctuation so it's kinda useless for me.
i was very excited about this at first, until I ran into the same problem. i keep using it occasionally, hoping it will get it right this time... but anything over 2 or 3 words and it always messes something up. i'm even sure to speak slowly and clearly. all it needs to do is mess one word up and its pointless. if i have to go in and correct something, that ends up taking longer than had i just typed in the first place.
Don't u mean windows phone. Also the dell venue pro is great with mango update, but that doesn't erase their past. Speech to text works well enough for me. Not sure what ur doing wrong but I don't have the big problems u state
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Yeah... Im not sure what the deal is. I don't have a lisp or anything like that .
Does anyone know if the core of the speech to text is shared with the music recognition feature also? Because that thing is buggy as hell to. For a while I would try to use it on songs and it would come back empty. I was starting to think that they just didnt have those songs in their library. But, then when a song was unrecognized, I would switch over to Shazam. Shazam would indicate what the song was, and if I clicked the Zune icon with in the app, it would take me right to the song in the Zune marketplace, so obviously the problem wasnt that they didn't 'carry' that song.
Other than when I have to use the phone to have it 'listen' and recognize what is being played or said, the OS is AMAZING.
In all honesty, I find the clearer and more diss-tinkt-lee I speak, the less it picks up.
It'll be something like this:
Me: Text (wife)
Phone: texting (wife)
Me: Want, to, get, pizza, tonight?
Phone: Went you bet pizza to knight. You can say send or start over.
Me: Start over.
Me: Wanna get pizzatonight
Phone: Wanna get pizza tonight
I kid you not, it picks up all the "gonnas" and what not. However for things longer than two sentences, it's a crap shoot.
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My guess is they purposely coded it to pick up more natural sounding speech patterns.
My favorite is when it takes everyday words and censors them because it thinks you drop so 4 letter bombs.
Example:
To Wife: You looked like a million dollars tonight.
What she gets: You looked like a *#&$&#@! tonight.
Goes over real well...
Works for me okay! I like it when its reading texts with "x's" at the end it reads "kisses" its so funny
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In all honesty, I find the clearer and more diss-tinkt-lee I speak, the less it picks up.
It'll be something like this:
Me: Text (wife)
Phone: texting (wife)
Me: Want, to, get, pizza, tonight?
Phone: Went you bet pizza to knight. You can say send or start over.
Me: Start over.
Me: Wanna get pizzatonight
Phone: Wanna get pizza tonight
I kid you not, it picks up all the "gonnas" and what not. However for things longer than two sentences, it's a crap shoot.
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My guess is they purposely coded it to pick up more natural sounding speech patterns.
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I'll have to try this.. I wonder if it's true. I was getting frustrated, it seemed like the more deliberate I was the more it ****ed with me.
and I don't get you guys who are saying 'it works good enough'. it either works or doesn't, no? if it doesn't say what you want then it's useless.
I don't bother with speech to text, but what I miss from the old WM 6.5 was MS Voice Command. You can ask "what time is it?"; "what call did I missed?"; "what appointment do I have?", etc.. It would event alert my upcoming appointment by voice! I don't get why MS scraped that and gave us this handicapped voice thing. Why let Apple get all the credit for siri when Voice Command was able do 80% of that 4 years ago?
Don't give Siri too much credit, it was down for hours today....anywho, mine is 90% accurate...sometimes it amazes me that it picked up what I said, but occasionally it will translate some crazy stuff lol.
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i'm sorry but more testing and this is atrocious.
my last two messages contained 'soon though i'm a' which was turned into 'sonoma'. SERIOUS?
and then 'eleven' it interpreted as 'lesson'. wrong amount of syllables, not even close.
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My favorite is when it takes everyday words and censors them because it thinks you drop so 4 letter bombs.
Example:
To Wife: You looked like a million dollars tonight.
What she gets: You looked like a *#&$&#@! tonight.
Goes over real well...
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It always makes me chuckle that it actually reads off f*ck and sh*t, etc. Even f*cking reads out loud and clear. However yeah, if I dictate a curse word, it replaces it with comic book swear symbols.
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i'm sorry but more testing and this is atrocious.
my last two messages contained 'soon though i'm a' which was turned into 'sonoma'. SERIOUS?
and then 'eleven' it interpreted as 'lesson'. wrong amount of syllables, not even close.
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"soon though I'm a", what was the rest of your sentence? If it was something like "I'm a be at John's house", then that might be your problem. I wouldn't think that urban slang is coded in, making it think you meant something else.
Essentially, Tellme has gotten pretty good for American/British & Aussie accents.
I'm Chinese & my voice is of a higher pitch so Tellme only got it right 50% & assuming the Auto-gain on the Trophy or my Bluetooth headset doesnt attenuate my voice too much.
A Kiwi I know also have the same problem but you know what? It's a lot better now compared to a year ago & the key is to speak naturally.
It's actually working amazingly well for me which is surprising since I have an Australian accent. I find it strange that it's not working too well for you.
Eg, I said 'I'll meet you at the park in 30 minutes but I'll also be stopping for lunch on the way' and it came out as 'I'll meet you at the park in 30 minutes but I'll also be stopping for lunch on my way'. I actually said this quickly (normal conversation speed), and it came out almost perfect. Even with the error (if you could even call it that) the sentence still made perfect sense..
I've found that the slower and clearer i speak the worse it is.
If i just speak normaly to it, it gets it pretty good.
i wonder if this is the issue for me?
are the phone sold with an accent filter?
I'm an Aussie but i live in the UK and i bought my mobile through O2. is there a way to tell the phone to "listen" for an Aussie accent?
I don't think we need something like Siri on WP7, it's a gimmick imo.
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I don't think we need something like Siri on WP7, it's a gimmick imo.
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it's marketed as a gimmick but there's no doubt its a useful feature. its capabilities are way beyond Tellme where you have to start off with 1 of only 4 keywords to start an action. i'll give it another few years though until anyone puts out a voice system that is truly useful and accurate.
i will give siri extra credit though.. my brother was messing around with it, and even when he gave commands it wouldn't recognize, it would exactly repeat what he said no matter how bizarre or quick he would talk. i'd imagine it must work well for voice to text.