I'm thinking on getting this phone. I have an iPhone 4 now and love the support in my language Greek for voice dialing over my bluetooth earpiece.
Could anyone confirm if you can do the same with this phone? This is very important for me, I have over 1.000 contacts and voice dialing is a time saver.
Also, how is the navigation? Which is the best app?
Thanks
Sorry I can't answer your question about the greek language, however, one of the things that I was worried about was the performance of the GPS, as samsung are historically pretty useless when it comes to gps performance. I can happily say though, that the GPS performance of this phone is simply perfect. I just use google maps for my navigation needs but there are plenty of other options available. Navigon, being one of my favourites.
Just check what languages does voice actions support... If there is Greek than you are good to go....
Although English is not my first language I still use it for dialing and texting....
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Unfortunately there's no voice calling support for greek. Bad google!
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phunkycow said:
Unfortunately there's no voice calling support for greek. Bad google!
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Thanks, really sucks that Google hasn't got support for Greek and maybe other languages in voice dialing. Staying with iPhone.
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I've got probably a somewhat unique problem and I wondered if there was a setting or conf file somewhere I could tweak to fix it.
The problem is that I'm a native English speaker but I use my phone in Spanish. I wish to perform voice searches in English because there are some things for which I don't know the word in Spanish and because my accent means Spanish voice to speech is a little less accurate than it should be. my phone used to work perfectly in Spanish with English voice searching until Google added support for spanish. My current work around of changing the phone's language settings back to English then to Spanish again works but is less than ideal as it takes ages to do and you'd often be faster typing you're search in manually. is there another way round this? is there a setting I can tweak? my Desire is rooted if it helps!......Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
Anyone any ideas?
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guessing that's a don't know. I was thinking that voice search had to be instructed to send the audio to a specific server based on the language and that either the program might be patchable or some config file editable...maybe even a script to change the language then launch voice search then switch it off again? or some program that might catch dns requests for the Spanish server and re-route them to the English one? I am just theorising of course! perhaps there's even an option I simply don't know about? anyone got any ideas?
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pretty please?
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Ok I've been uber patient and waited ages....but it's time to bump again and see if anyone has any ideas
This is the first time I bumped into this issue, and I must admit it sucks
Here's the deal, in every single phone I had I've used the phone (UI) in english, and wrote text in spanish using Itap.
My last phone (nokia 5800) had no problems with that.
With this new one, Moto Defy, I see there's no way to change the UI language, and the auto-prediction separately.
I thought it had to do with the fact that Android by default doesn't have a T9 like keyboard for text input so I downloaded a couple of apps for that but all have the same issue, they work fine, but they keep using the language for auto-prediction set in Settings (which is English, for the UI)
Does anybody know how I could accomplish this?
Hope somebody can help =)
Regards!
I had your same issue and I solved it using "htc ime mod keyboard"; you can find it here on xda forum, not on the market (therefore you have to manually install it).
It's fully customizable, has T9 prediction, supports many languages.
Infact I configured the volume button to quickly switch between 2 languages that I use.
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psixda said:
I had your same issue and I solved it using "htc ime mod keyboard"; you can find it here on xda forum, not on the market (therefore you have to manually install it).
It's fully customizable, has T9 prediction, supports many languages.
Infact I configured the volume button to quickly switch between 2 languages that I use.
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thanks, i've tested it and tried but it feels somewhat slow to me :S
I'm really picky when it comes to typing speed so maybe it's just me. I'll see what I can do but thanks =)
Hey everyone,
Is there a native Android Chinese input method? I know that iOS allows you to write the characters. Is there something similar that is not third party.
Thanks!
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My dad was wondering the same thing. Unfortunately I don't see it in my friend's Galaxy Nexus, so I would say no, it does not have native Chinese input and you'll need to download a third party one (unless custom ROMs have it, then you can go that route).
There is, however, native Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) voice typing. So you can select "Chinese, Yue (Hong Kong)" and when you press the voice command (on the keyboard or for Google search) you can search for things by speaking Cantonese which is pretty cool.
HTC does a good job of filling in what Vanilla Android is missing as HTC keyboards (probably only in Asian versions of HTC phones) have pinyin and hand writing options on their custom keyboards. Pretty accurate recognition too (I have it on my HTC Panache).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...roid.inputmethod.pinyin&feature=search_result
Google's Pinyin IME. Hope this helps.
To bad I cannot use the ok Google voice actions in my own language at the moment.. Even English is not supported that well at the moment as far as I know. "navigate to London" does work but cannot navigate to Amsterdam [emoji15]
I have set the Google now settings (on my phone) to English and second language to Dutch. This doesn't help understanding voice actions at all, it only makes it worse.
Is German good supported at the moment?
There isn't even Dutch language menu support on wear... Come on Google..
Does anybody have any tips to make it better?
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On my phone, navigation commands are understood but not on my watch.
For example... When I say "ok Google", "navigate to Amsterdam" (on my phone with Google now) it starts the maps navigation.
When I try the same on the watch it only start some websites found...
Can someone try what happens on your watch?
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djgodlike said:
On my phone, navigation commands are understood but not on my watch.
For example... When I say "ok Google", "navigate to Amsterdam" (on my phone with Google now) it starts the maps navigation.
When I try the same on the watch it only start some websites found...
Can someone try what happens on your watch?
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Same with italian language.. as far as i keep english as first language it works but italian as second language as well is not working almost at all!
on the phone everything works fine... when i get back on the watch italian even if selected doesn't work well.. and after yesterday update the blue circle spin much longer than before.. before was istantaneous !
i hope they work on a better release!
Hopefully google will sort this out sooner than later. I even cannot choose the interface language in Dutch. There is German, French, Spanish, Chinese etc but no Dutch. Not even after the Aw5.0.1 update...
Shame on you Google!
One other question, when initially installing the watch, I can select a few languages. I have set it to English, no problem, but there was no Dutch(Netherlands) available. I hope this is normal and Android Wear is not yet in Dutch? Or am I missing something?
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One other question, when initially installing the watch, I can select a few languages. I have set it to English, no problem, but there was no Dutch(Netherlands) available. I hope this is normal and Android Wear is not yet in Dutch? Or am I missing something?
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Same here, too bad... No Dutch maar wel Duits[emoji35]
Hey, just discovered that Google has integrated WhatsApp and other messaging services into "Ok Google" - see here
https://plus.google.com/+google/posts/Lak3Pep2Yjd
Yep, I've been using this extensively and it's actually really good.
All you need to do after you say 'Ok, google' is say 'Send whatsapp message to <ContactName>' and then dictate the message.
The voice recognition that google has is really good.
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Yep, I've been using this extensively and it's actually really good.
All you need to do after you say 'Ok, google' is say 'Send whatsapp message to <ContactName>' and then dictate the message.
The voice recognition that google has is really good.
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It doesn't work on my smartphone it reminds me to whatsap app to find on google play... i tried in my langauge (italian) and in english. Any help?
Hmmmmm, I've never experienced that problem. The only thing I cud think of was to ensure that the latest version of whatsapp is installed on ur phone as well as the latest version of Android wear on ur phone and on ur watch.
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It doesn't work on my smartphone it reminds me to whatsap app to find on google play... i tried in my langauge (italian) and in english. Any help?
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For now this function is available only in English... You have to set english language to phone and watch i think. I'm italian too and i hope this service will be soon available in Italy too...
magicdark said:
For now this function is available only in English... You have to set english language to phone and watch i think. I'm italian too and i hope this service will be soon available in Italy too...
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Yep.. you know when google will add it in italian too? Or another way?
Does this work with the iOS version of Android wear?
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Does this work with the iOS version of Android wear?
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lol most likely no. iOS is so limited. what are you even doing here traitor ?!
I just tried this on my watch! And it work! I speak spanish (I'm from Argentina) and the watch understandme really well!
This is f***** awesome!!! =D
It works in Italian too! It's great! ???
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