hey i was wondering if theres anyway to automatically have a text message in arabic to come up as english in a text message. ive used google translate but its not always accurate. i would've assumed since its a totally different charactered language it might have been translated unlike spanish but i guess not. any one else got some good tips or maybe another app that can do it automatically in the background?
tr82691 said:
hey i was wondering if theres anyway to automatically have a text message in arabic to come up as english in a text message. ive used google translate but its not always accurate. i would've assumed since its a totally different charactered language it might have been translated unlike spanish but i guess not. any one else got some good tips or maybe another app that can do it automatically in the background?
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I've never come across a translator that was more than mediocre and Google translate is actually the best I have used but still only mediocre.
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danipoak said:
I've never come across a translator that was more than mediocre and Google translate is actually the best I have used but still only mediocre.
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ive used it but dont care for it. i know for the iphone i was able to click the text and it would translate. wish there was something like this for the epic.
no one else have any helpful input??? :/
Find out what service Apple uses for its translation. Maybe they have an android app for it.
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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 :-(
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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
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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
I dictate a fair amount of my text messages and, quite often, my standard English is replaced by slang. For example, when I say "want to" it is replaced by "wanna." Anyone know how to disable this "feature?"
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I dictate a fair amount of my text messages and, quite often, my standard English is replaced by slang. For example, when I say "want to" it is replaced by "wanna." Anyone know how to disable this "feature?"
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mine replaces "wanna" by "want to"
No one else with English OCD issues know of a workaround for this?
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No one else with English OCD issues know of a workaround for this?
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speak more clearly? as in, enunciate the gap between "want" and "to"
Itl be a few years before these new voice apps clearly repeat normal everyday slang /mumble mumble just as we state it.. All u can do is speak slow and clear and pronunciate words clearly
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Just wondering before i get my neus will google now work for malaysian or asians in general , as far as i know S voice and siri struggles to undersrand malaysian english ( judging it when i used my friends phone ) and i turns out more of a gimmick than a function , does this flaw comes to google now ?
I'm Malaysian and Google Now works perfectly fine for me
I am Vietnamese and Google Now understands my English as well...
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Just wondering before i get my neus will google now work for malaysian or asians in general , as far as i know S voice and siri struggles to undersrand malaysian english ( judging it when i used my friends phone ) and i turns out more of a gimmick than a function , does this flaw comes to google now ?
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I dont have any experience there, but my fiance is Colombian and Google Now does not pick up her voice well at all.
I am from India and Its perfect for me!
google now works perfectly ,can recognise my voice with no issues.. way better than siri.
I think its really depend on the way u pronounced it..
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Some Malaysians have accent that make them mispronounce words, if you pronounce the word correctly, it should work.
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I think its really depend on the way u pronounced it..
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Spot on, it's not the accent but pronunciations of the words.
Also many people don't realize they don't speak clearly or have speaking problems.
to OP, not to sound insensitive, but how is your incorrect pronunciation of words Google Now's fault?
Not to cause any disturbance here but I work with importation and some asians are EXTREMELY hard to understand, I have to tell them to write me an email... so pay attention to you accent and pronunciation while using Google Now!
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to OP, not to sound insensitive, but how is your incorrect pronunciation of words Google Now's fault?
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haven't tried google now yet but using my friend's 4s and using siri ...and man is she useless , she find it hard even identifying simple words from my class's english ace ( he got 92/100 in the test ) and hell it don't work for me either most of the times at least , she got wright every now and then
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I am from India and Its perfect for me!
google now works perfectly ,can recognise my voice with no issues.. way better than siri.
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Hey Buddy.
I am also from India and Until yesterday i was using galaxy s2 and i was able to use google now perfectly on that. Today i bought galasy s3. Now i am able to install google now without any problem and it is working too. however, the problem is changing the language. On S2, when i changed the language and tapped ENGLISH, it further gave me many options like English(US), English(UK), English(India) etc. Now on S3, it is stuck on English (US), and my accent is not recognized by English(US). Also when i change the language to some other, it does not come back to English even on selecting it. But my main problem is that only that i am not able to select English(India). Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
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I am from India and Its perfect for me!
google now works perfectly ,can recognise my voice with no issues.. way better than siri.
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Out of curiousity, has the bus stop card ever appeared for you? I use busses pretty often (bangalore, here.) and it's not shown up once :/
Not sure I am American living and Germany and Google now understands 50% of the time. Like I said wake me up at 6am well it understood bake shake sake lake but wake nope. Stupid **** I tell you. Voice recognition still blows major and i stick with typing it. Who needs siri or Google now? I wish it would work but nope. It sucks.
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Ok so this is just an annoying pet peeve...but as one example, I often mistype the word "just" as "juat," and I've never clicked to save the word or have in my personal dictionary, but now the keyboard autocorrect stops changing "juat" to "just." Other words included are "thks" for "this," "garvage" to "garbage" and "lll" to "lol." To clarify, thks problem comes with the LG Optimus keyboard, it's not like the standard/stock ice cream sandwich one. Not sure exactly how to describe it...I included a picture.
Just wondering if anyone else had this issue as well...not a dire hazard but it's extremely annoying. If anyone has experienced this, what did you do? Again, these words aren't in the phones dictionary, they actually come up as spelling errors and are underlined in red while composing text.
Thanks!!
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Check the Settings
frankp124 said:
Ok so this is just an annoying pet peeve...but as one example, I often mistype the word "just" as "juat," and I've never clicked to save the word or have in my personal dictionary, but now the keyboard autocorrect stops changing "juat" to "just." Other words included are "thks" for "this," "garvage" to "garbage" and "lll" to "lol." To clarify, thks problem comes with the LG Optimus keyboard, it's not like the standard/stock ice cream sandwich one. Not sure exactly how to describe it...I included a picture.
Just wondering if anyone else had this issue as well...not a dire hazard but it's extremely annoying. If anyone has experienced this, what did you do? Again, these words aren't in the phones dictionary, they actually come up as spelling errors and are underlined in red while composing text.
Thanks!!
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If you check Settings<Language and Input<SpellCheck, you could disable that. I believe an option to see the contents of your personal dictionary are there too. Just in case you accidentally added those words.
I myself am a sloppy typer, often missing letter in a word, so I've found that the stock 4.2.2 keyboard that Google offers in the play store, has a better correction engine. And it offers swype, which is convenient with our huge phones! I'd also look into Swiftkey as well, as that is also an amazing keyboard I've used with previous phones, although it adheres to a more rigid correction system. Just my two cents!
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If you check Settings<Language and Input<SpellCheck, you could disable that.
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Unfortunately, I did not see the option for "SpellCheck" unless it is somewhere else. The issue I'm having is not with the personal dictionary, as I have checked in there and there is no entry for such words as "juat" and "thks." The issue is with the actual keyboard and how it corrects, because right now it is failing to correct some of these errors I make. The system does not recognize them as correctly spelled words, but the keyboard still lets them get through. Not sure if there's another remedy for this
does any one know how to export/extract Swype keyboard user custom dictionary ? or atleast to locate it/them on the phone ?
I want to migrate to Touchpal keyboard but I dont want to start inputtting all my words manually again. I already have a huge list which I have been building over a long time !
Touchpal keyboard is very nice and I highly recommend it to try it out if you guys dont know or havent used it they even have tablet edition by the way link
I'm also very interested in this topic. Nobody here with a hint how this could work?
MartinMo said:
I'm also very interested in this topic. Nobody here with a hint how this could work?
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I guess just stick with Swype Dragon or just deal with the pain of starting from scratch with touchpal keyboard
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dead soul said:
I guess just stick with Swype Dragon or just deal with the pain of starting from scratch with touchpal keyboard
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I just sent an Support ticket to Swype asking if there's an option to export/import words of/to the user dictionary of Swype and additionally asking if there is a general problem with dictionaries bigger than about 1300 words. Swype worked miserable for me as my dictionary grew this big. I had to manually delete words to solve this probleme and I was quite a bit annoyed...
yes me too, I think I did contact them about a year ago. they said no. if they do help you let me know
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The support answered me, that the export is not possible and thats really bad.
The import is annoying but no big thing. Just make an long txt file, one word a line. You can't import all the words at once, but if you mark about twenty of them and then long press the Swype key you will be pretty quick importing 1200 words - what I did in about 20 minutes or so.