What has happened to the TTS voice that was on previous versions on android?
The UK voice was a quality female one, which worked very well. The new one ok the Nexus is male and far worse. The pronunciation of words is far worse with this, it make many more mistakes. A big step backwards, I hate it.
Where can I get a APK with the old, superior, TTS engine. Think it was called Pico TTS.
The Galaxy Nexus have male voice? Damn. I didn't knew.
Could be worse. The voice on my Nexus One pronounces 'meadowside' as 'meadowseed'. Took me awhile to figure out what she was talking about.
Download the free Text-to-speech app from the Marketplace, it's called eSPeak TTS. If not, try SVOX. There will probably be a port if others really want it, seems simple enough to accomplish.
Neither seem to work on the Nexus Galaxy.
You can't install any of these engines so that they appear as selectable in the settings. the only engine ever selectable is the "Google TTS Engine"
Yeah, i'd like her back too. Much prefer the old one back, any idea's anyone?
The new one sucks. I thought it sounded like the phone has been smoking for too many years, lol. I also think it's too slow when using navigation.
Speaking of incorrect pronunciation, there is a street in San Antonio called Wurzbach which navigation pronounced it, wasbitch. Seriously, no joke.
I also found my GN now says, for example, "at the traffic circle, take the third exit" whereas the previous voice would correctly call this a roundabout.
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It doesn't know street names anymore either. I had the SVOX running fin on my N1 but when I use Grace (SVOX) I some times get it telling my some bizarre URL with "Turn right onto route 24 north" jammed in the middle.
I know this is an old thread but...
IVONA tts seems to let you install it then will appear in the language and input screen allowing you to change the voice. There are quite a few to download and all seem to be good quality.
GN has TTS? Wow ive been missing out. I remember fumbling around in settings trying to get text messages to be read out to me but never figured out how. Anyone enlighten me? I'm on 4.0.4
csirac said:
GN has TTS? Wow ive been missing out. I remember fumbling around in settings trying to get text messages to be read out to me but never figured out how. Anyone enlighten me? I'm on 4.0.4
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Settings > Language & Input > TTS Output
That's turned on, but how do I get it to read say, a sms I just received?
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That's turned on, but how do I get it to read say, a sms I just received?
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Buy ecid from the shop (enhanced sms and caller id), it also tells you whos calling and it can read emails too.
The ivona tts's are fantastic, really clear, very lifelike and now work fine with ics.
I don't understand... the maps/navigation voice (I'm assuming this is the system-wide TTS as this is the only time I've experienced it) is by far the smoothest, most correctly-pronounced female voice I've ever heard... even better than Siri I might conclude.
Here's a sample I just uploaded. How is that so horrible?
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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.
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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.
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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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I'm looking into buying a Google Voice App. Did a few searches, but the reviews are mostly outdated and some of the cons are undoubtedly fixed.
Wondering if anyone recently done the same search and what conclusion you came to?
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I'm looking into buying a Google Voice App. Did a few searches, but the reviews are mostly outdated and some of the cons are undoubtedly fixed.
Wondering if anyone recently done the same search and what conclusion you came to?
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If you mean the program that records calls, I had an issue one time on my HD7. I used the app on an Android and it recorded a call and kept showing the icon on the lockscreen of my HD7 when I started using it. What it did was mix up the voice message origin between the Google app and the built-in app. I could never get the icon to go away until I made a new voice message to my HD7 using the built-in app. Then I was able to delete the message and make the icon disappear.
I stopped using Google Voice because of that.
I've been using GoVoice, and its worked pretty good so far. Its a far cry from the official Google Voice app I had on android, so I'm hoping socket support comes soon, and hoping Google will make an official app like they did with the iPhone.
I come from using a Nexus One so the switch has been painful to say the least. I do like GoVoice somewhat. Hate the fact that you have to sign up for a third party service to get push notifications. Otherwise it's an ok app.
My pick is FreeTalk. I was using GoVoice before, but I found that FreeTalk offers a more user friendly interface. I like the fact that when I start up FreeTalk, you can immediately choose to either look at your messages or immediately swipe to the phone keypad hub screen to make a call. This is especially useful to me, as I make a lot of international calls through Google Voice. Lastly, for those who might need this feature, there is a non-English translation option that will translate your SMS and text voicemails to another language. I am not sure if this is built-in into the Android version, and I don't think I saw it in GoVoice either.
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
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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
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
I've heard the voice on the demo, it sounds really good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDsOtdRtG0Q&feature=player_detailpage#t=68s
Mine sounds rubbish, it sounds to me like it is using the old TTS service, basically a female version of Steven Hawking's speak'n'spell.
I've reset the device and erased everything, still it sounds the same.
The odd thing is that in the settings page (Settings>Language & Input>Text-To-Speech Output>Listen to Example) is a different voice again (male this time). It sounds better than the female one, but still ropey compared to the youtube video above.
Any ideas?
thanks
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I've heard the voice on the demo, it sounds really good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDsOtdRtG0Q&feature=player_detailpage#t=68s
Mine sounds rubbish, it sounds to me like it is using the old TTS service, basically a female version of Steven Hawking's speak'n'spell.
I've reset the device and erased everything, still it sounds the same.
The odd thing is that in the settings page (Settings>Language & Input>Text-To-Speech Output>Listen to Example) is a different voice again (male this time). It sounds better than the female one, but still ropey compared to the youtube video above.
Any ideas?
thanks
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Hmm. Well I've installed Ivona which is fantastic across the whole system except Google Voice Search/Now which still uses the old voice (from Eclair i think).
Mine sounds identical to the youtube video you referenced.
Here's what mine sounds like, it actually sounds better in the video than in real life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_nUkHCkkLY
I wonder if it is because of locale settings. However I would have expected the results to be read using the voice selected in the TTS settings screen.
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Here's what mine sounds like, it actually sounds better in the video than in real life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_nUkHCkkLY
I wonder if it is because of locale settings. However I would have expected the results to be read using the voice selected in the TTS settings screen.
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I believe the new voice is only available for people in the USA. Can anyone confirm that? I am in the US and it's the new voice.
It's because you're in the UK....I believe the settings can be changed to USA and you'll get the much nicer sounding voice over the robotic voice.
yup, change the language to US to get the nice voice.
Only downside is that your weather card will be stuck at Washington DC
What setting do you need to change, changed my voice to US and it sounds the same but it did give me the extra hot word option though
Yes, changing the location in the Google Now/Voice Search app does not change the voice.
Why have they added this as a seperate voice synth instead of using it as a system TTS provider? Annoying.
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
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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!
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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...
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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.