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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)

Voice Actions not downloading

The newly announce updated Voice Search app (including Voice Actions) is not downloading on my Desire. It's not even there on the market.

yep, me too

Has an U.S. chums got the .apks ? Will that work?

its up now for uk users dude!

Just showed up on Irish market and installed no problem

Popple3 said:
Just showed up on Irish market and installed no problem
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Does the "send text to" or "listen to" functionality work? I can't get these to work. However the maps/ directions / call functionality does work for me.
Rooted official Froyo

I managed to get it downloaded and working via Appbrain

Woo hoo. Also got it but text and email options not working? Anyone got this working?

nb8k said:
Does the "send text to" or "listen to" functionality work? I can't get these to work. However the maps/ directions / call functionality does work for me.
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"Send text to" works fine. "Listen to" or "set alarm" don't though. The HTC apps need to be updated to support it
Official Froyo, not rooted

Does this give us bluetooth voice dialling by a roundabout route?

It won't install on my desire. Pays froyo rom.
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al89nut said:
Does this give us bluetooth voice dialling by a roundabout route?
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Yes. I can press the button and say "Call Buster" and it does a quick countdown followed by dialling that number. Haven't tried with bluetooth but I assume it would.

I guess the problem is that you still have to press a button, but it is a move forward

I set voice recognition in settings to English us and it all works now

mottchew said:
I set voice recognition in settings to English us and it all works now
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Nice one!!!! Works much better. Which music apps support it?
Found answer: Pandora, Last.fm, mspot, spotify and Rdio according to the website

nb8k said:
Nice one!!!! Works much better. Which music apps support it?
Found answer: Pandora, Last.fm, mspot, spotify and Rdio according to the website
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Have you worked out how to pick which music app you want? I have the standard music app, Spotify and Last.fm and it keeps defaulting to Last.fm.

Once the language is set in settings to English US it becomes infinitely more useful. Probably getting about 90% accuracy with complete random results. Test emails, texts, calling the chicken shop across the road from where I live, the closest McDonald's to where I live, and even my work place. All flawlessly! Very impressed.

I don't have English US in Settings>Language - just UK and Ireland
Edit - however I do in Settings> Voice Input and Output - is that what you mean?
Edit 2 - yes, that changes it.

al89nut said:
I don't have English US in Settings>Language - just UK and Ireland
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Settings > Voice input & ouput > Voice recognizer settings > Language

Oooh. Changing to English US made all the difference. I was on English UK and it wouldn't recognise "text" and "email" commands. Now it's great! Remember to block offensive words unless you specifically need to swear because even the most innocent of texts ended up with an f-word or two. Not exactly what I was expecting but anyhow

Am I the only one who likes S-Voice better than Google Now?

I know neither are perfect but when I give a local phone command like play music or a certain song S- Voice usually does it automatically. Google Now just always wants to search the web or make me scroll to a (tiny) button and choose what I want to do. Any tips to getting Google Now to "get a little smarter"?

I don't get Google Now yet. I mean I have it, I just don't "get it". The cards kinda put me off, so I haven't taken the time to explore what it really does for me.
I liked being able to press the search button (which my S3 doesn't have ) and Google Voice Search would pop up and I'd tell her (yeah, her) to do something and she would do it (usually).
Google Now seems a bit more complicated.

I've been using Google Now for a while now and I've found it to be very convenient. I love the fact that it will remind me when my favorite football (soccer) team plays a day before on the days I forget. It's pretty awesome IMO how it gives me an ETA for my commute to and from work without having to look up anything. It also does that for any place I look up (Store, Company, etc) with a shortcut to navigate. I was skeptical at first but it has found it's way to integrate into my everyday life.
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I looked into it a little bit and I've come to the conclusion I don't lead an interesting enough life for Google Now to be useful. I (more often than not) know where stuff is around me, I have apps that tell me the weather and my teams' scores, and public transit is pretty consistent for me.
So there you go.

I can't really get the hang of either of them. Can either of them place phone calls or open apps?
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There both agreviting. I mean try telling it to send a text message, damn thing just twist your words. It's making me think my spoken English was recently learnt through rosettastone. I end up arguing with it....
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I use Voice Search (not Google Now) because the cards put me off.
Usually I'm looking to do something specific and I don't need a bunch of cards coming up.
I found that S-voice was less accurate and slower than Voice search for everything. VS will make calls, search, search phone, send texts...etc.
I hated on S-voice that it had to repeat back what it was doing....make sure that's what I wanted and then do it....the process took longer than VS by 3X.

bud951 said:
I know neither are perfect but when I give a local phone command like play music or a certain song S- Voice usually does it automatically. Google Now just always wants to search the web or make me scroll to a (tiny) button and choose what I want to do. Any tips to getting Google Now to "get a little smarter"?
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Ditto here. I did find personalized recognition under settings so you can try that to see if it helps, and IIRC, you can choose the apps that it has access to.

I pretty much only use the (new offline) Google Voice search/commands, too, and ignore the Google Now cards, because they're not useful often enough in NYC. Weather and extreme weather alert cards are nice, but the subway and commute stuff doesn't really help me, and I don't give a sh1t about the new movie & sports cards.
Maybe more user-relevant cards from apps will show up in the future, though.
(Still, S-Voice sucks.)

The fact that google now doesnt have full control over the apps yet is the kicker. I think it will be able to do this and then it will be the king. But for asking google search type things its better than S voice, but S voice can control the apps....combine the abilities of the 2 with the speed of Google Now and it will be great.

wiz4769 said:
The fact that google now doesnt have full control over the apps yet is the kicker. I think it will be able to do this and then it will be the king. But for asking google search type things its better than S voice, but S voice can control the apps....combine the abilities of the 2 with the speed of Google Now and it will be great.
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Google voice is the best of both worlds...it has app control and it's fast on voice searching.
It's S-Voice without the annoying slowness and GNow without the stupid cards popping up.

wiz4769 said:
The fact that google now doesnt have full control over the apps yet is the kicker. I think it will be able to do this and then it will be the king. But for asking google search type things its better than S voice, but S voice can control the apps....combine the abilities of the 2 with the speed of Google Now and it will be great.
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Isn't part the problem that Google Now uses DIFFERENT commands to do things? (I just updated to the v7 version and I can set a time with the same prhasing as S Voice, but it actually sets an alarm for 10 minutes later vs S-Voice's bringing up the timer part of the clock.)
In S Voice you would say, "set a timer for ten minutes" and it brings up the stop watch and asks you to start it. (mine usually times out before I can say 'start')
In Google Now you say, 'set a reminder for ten minutes ' and it does set the alarm for the time.
What I LOVE is that Google Now can look at my calendar and where my next appt is and tell me (in advance) how long it's going to take to get there, reminding me to leave. This of course requires that you put the information into the location portion of your appts.
There's a set of 2 vids on Youtube with Google Now's 67 commands and search types.
http://youtu.be/fHkhp6BwnGo and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ePUYp6HPU&feature=share&list=ULh8ePUYp6HPU

Lol man! i think you are alone in this one!! google now is so much better to anything else!! it really knows you!!

kjpedro said:
Lol man! i think you are alone in this one!! google now is so much better to anything else!! it really knows you!!
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+1 Google Now hands down
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Can someone explain me how Gnow works and what it can do never used it
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I never use neither of them.
I hate Google Now throwing all the sports thingy wasting my battery, memory, and data.. Though, S-voice don't spend any data, I feel like it's wasting battery and memory.
I'll use G-Now/S-Voice when phone can stay up for 3days with heavy usage

Ivona- A more natural voice for eReaders

So googles voice engine is pretty lame IMHO. I didn't find the voice and pronunciations to be clear enough. I am quite pleased with Ivona text-to-speech engine. Its free and available in the play store. Sorry I would link, but I haven't reached my ten submissions.
Setup is pretty self explanatory:
1. download the app
2. Open app and choose desired voice (download takes a minute or two)
3. select the voice engine settings/language & input/text-to-speach
Hope this helps!

rockstang said:
Sorry I would link, but I haven't reached my ten submissions.
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Here ya go:
Main app
Personally, I like the British English voice.
The Australian one is also not bad.

Question: What's the add-on to Google maps that voice the turns more clear and better

Question: What's the name of that add-on to Goggle maps that voice the turns more clear and better
Back in the Android 2.1 and 2.2 there was an add-on to the Google Maps the enabled to voice of the navigate to pronounce the turns and streets more like a person. Every time you flashed a 2.2 rom or 2.3 rom and installed Google Maps, there was a service agreement banner that popped up and then gave you the option to update the Google map with an add-on that enabled the voice to sound more human.
so if you were to make a 10 mile commute in the city, the voice would prononce the streets as they sound and give you the turn by turn directions more fluidly.
Now with the Galaxy S4 phone, the Google Map voice is lacking the fluid personal voice. The voice is just god awful. sounds like a zombie that is giving you the directions and names but not the turns as fluid as before.
If anyone remembers that name of the add-on or a link to it, I would be much appreciated.

I didn't know there was such a thing! I am curious to find out what it is now! I noticed that the navigation voice is pretty awful at pronouncing street names myself. Would really enjoy a less robotic sound myself.
serendipityguy said:
Question: What's the name of that add-on to Goggle maps that voice the turns more clear and better
Back in the Android 2.1 and 2.2 there was an add-on to the Google Maps the enabled to voice of the navigate to pronounce the turns and streets more like a person. Every time you flashed a 2.2 rom or 2.3 rom and installed Google Maps, there was a service agreement banner that popped up and then gave you the option to update the Google map with an add-on that enabled the voice to sound more human.
so if you were to make a 10 mile commute in the city, the voice would prononce the streets as they sound and give you the turn by turn directions more fluidly.
Now with the Galaxy S4 phone, the Google Map voice is lacking the fluid personal voice. The voice is just god awful. sounds like a zombie that is giving you the directions and names but not the turns as fluid as before.
If anyone remembers that name of the add-on or a link to it, I would be much appreciated.
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it is trial and error....
Monkz said:
I didn't know there was such a thing! I am curious to find out what it is now! I noticed that the navigation voice is pretty awful at pronouncing street names myself. Would really enjoy a less robotic sound myself.
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I guess their are some options under the Language and input as to chose the Text to speech options.
The options are either Samsung or Google and then it a tweaking of the speech synthesis and it is trial and error....

Do you mean the navigation add on that comes with maps? That speaks turn by turn with s natural voice

serendipityguy said:
Question: What's the name of that add-on to Goggle maps that voice the turns more clear and better
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Imho, the Samsung TTS engine woman's voice is much better sounding, and was updated. The Google TTS is, well, not very good.

thatsupnow said:
Do you mean the navigation add on that comes with maps? That speaks turn by turn with s natural voice
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Yes . . .

Pinan said:
Imho, the Samsung TTS engine woman's voice is much better sounding, and was updated. The Google TTS is, well, not very good.
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Yes I do agree, after sampling the two voices with the Voice engines it was clear that the Samsung was the winer of the two.

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