Just letting the people on XDA know about HTC's latest update on facebook.
http://rawkinaptech.blogspot.in/2012/06/htc-to-launch-voice-assistant-for-its.html
I know there have been rumours and A HTC speak Apk in the Endeavor Leaked ROM.
but, it seems like HTC is hinting at this coming pretty soon.
S-voice, Siri and now this,all are only good for a laugh. I find it much easier to do the job myself than to ask something that i may or may not get a correct response. Also i don't have a dog so this is useless for me i guess
Thank god. The lack of an integrated voice dialer is probably my biggest ***** about the phone. Vlingo works OK but it doesn't let you dial by digit, only contact name. I hope Speak is in the 2.05 update, that would be fantastic.
True it's a Gimmick, but a welcome gimmick at least.
realunited123 said:
S-voice, Siri and now this,all are only good for a laugh. I find it much easier to do the job myself than to ask something that i may or may not get a correct response. Also i don't have a dog so this is useless for me i guess
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It's because , they don't (still) recognise your pronunciation.
Not being racist, I'm also from India's neighboring country. :fingers-crossed:
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Thank god. The lack of an integrated voice dialer is probably my biggest ***** about the phone. Vlingo works OK but it doesn't let you dial by digit, only contact name. I hope Speak is in the 2.05 update, that would be fantastic.
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Voice dialing has been around for ever (since G1). Hit the Mic button on the search widget and say call 0123456789.
farnsbarns said:
Voice dialing has been around for ever (since G1). Hit the Mic button on the search widget and say call 0123456789.
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I should have added "via Bluetooth." That's all I really care about.
Did you notice the FB comments:
HTC: In case it wasn't obvious enough, this "app" isn't real and we're just having some fun. B)
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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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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
Hello,
does anyone have issues with the voice search not working as advertised on the keynote?
For example, asking "Who's is the Prime Minister of Japan" just returns a web search result and nothing else. No talking back.
It seems as though it's been disabled, can anyone confirm this?
Edit: Perhaps it's because I'm outside of the US? I'd love to hear back from users with Jellybean outside and inside the US.
Google Now/Search definitely talks back. I just tried that right now. Have you enabled all the features in keyboard/typing and search settings? Try a restart also after
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leshake said:
Google Now/Search definitely talks back. I just tried that right now. Have you enabled all the features in keyboard/typing and search settings? Try a restart also after
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Must be because you are in Us.
Here in new Zealand I can confirm no speech, have yet to try via USA based proxy.
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Sent from my Jellybean Machine.
Works for me in .au if I ask it the exact same question as in the first post "Who's is the Prime Minister of Japan"
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Hello,
does anyone have issues with the voice search not working as advertised on the keynote?
For example, asking "Who's is the Prime Minister of Japan" just returns a web search result and nothing else. No talking back.
It seems as though it's been disabled, can anyone confirm this?
Edit: Perhaps it's because I'm outside of the US? I'd love to hear back from users with Jellybean outside and inside the US.
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I have been using JB in india and for me voice search worked perfectly and also tried the search what u did even for that it gave the correct answer hope it helps
Can u PM me the voice search apk from JB ?
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Can u PM me the voice search apk from JB ?
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I can but i m not very familiar with the file name if u do tell me i ll extract and give u
Alright so I can confirm. Once I went home I was able to get it to talk back and respond to some basic questions, such as "weather" and "who is prime minister of x".
Anyone have any other cool questions you asked that Google responds to? For example, currency conversion doesn't respond back to me, just shows me search.
Although I can never get the mapping questions to show up. "Map of gas stations near me", or "Map of closest 7 eleven"
Also, my Google Now shows no results.
Confirmed working over here in Australia. Pretty cool actually. Now excuse me I've got a bus full of iPhoneys to show off to!
I can't get it to talk, it just shows me some googlelinks here in germany :/
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I can but i m not very familiar with the file name if u do tell me i ll extract and give u
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Its voicetalk or voice search. Something to do with voice. Please PM me asap.
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Its voicetalk or voice search. Something to do with voice. Please PM me asap.
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Uh...download the ROM and extract it yourself if you're so anxious?
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I can't get it to talk, it just shows me some googlelinks here in germany :/
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For me it didn't work at my job. I'm assuming because of proxies or something? Not entirely sure. Try using 3G and try restarting your phone once too..
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For me it didn't work at my job. I'm assuming because of proxies or something? Not entirely sure. Try using 3G and try restarting your phone once too..
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exactly my thoughts. didn't do the trick though.
Jubakuba said:
Uh...download the ROM and extract it yourself if you're so anxious?
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Which rom? Give me the link
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Its voicetalk or voice search. Something to do with voice. Please PM me asap.
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It's VoiceSearch.apk and GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk
I'd appreciate it too.
when I change every language-setting to english it works.
Seems a bit hit or miss.
Ask who the prime minister of japan is and i get voice and images etc. Ask who it is for england and i get a google search.
Also, sending texts, settings alarms etc doesn't work
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Seems a bit hit or miss.
Ask who the prime minister of japan is and i get voice and images etc. Ask who it is for england and i get a google search.
Also, sending texts, settings alarms etc doesn't work
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For England if you ask, "Who is the Prime Minister of UK" it works.
For SMS I say, "Send text to Dad I'm going to be late today" works for me.
For Alarm, I say, "Set and Alarm for 430 am tomorrow" also works.
Fun think to try, "What is the answer to life, the universe and everything" you get, "42"
Other things I've noticed:
"Where are all the petrol stations near me" works. Whereas, "where are all the gas stations near me" didn't. Then slowly, over time, as I used it more they started to work.
It seems like something is going on in the servers at ol google.
Just curious is it possible to port the new voice search like siri , to our ics bulids in the meantime we wait for jelly bean ??????
S E A R C H will help a whole lot http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668824
im not talking about s-voice my friend , i'm talking about the new google voice search thats in jelly bean.
I honestly could care less about voice search. The less that people read and type, the dumber they get. It's bad enough that people speak in smiley faces and lol's. Google already auto corrects our spelling.
Samsung or Google voice search?
Not sure he's referring to the Samsung voice search or Google's Jelly Bean improved search.
Jb google search is completely different here is what I believe you want video not the app
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kDsOtdRtG0Q
Right this is a good question, Can it be done for those of us who would enjoy that feature?
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I honestly could care less about voice search. The less that people read and type, the dumber they get. It's bad enough that people speak in smiley faces and lol's. Google already auto corrects our spelling.
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Smiley faces and lols are a good way to help people understand the intent when communicating in a text only environment. Too often people misconstrue what is being said because it sounds too blunt or rude. General language, spelling and grammar are definitely suffering beneath the onslaught of texting slang but don't throw the smiley faces under the bus, they aren't to blame.
But keeping to the topic at hand, voice search, voice texting and voice activate features are very helpful in a number of environments. And most of the voice search engines require that people speak properly as they don't usually respond to slang.
I was referring to text slang. Now that I think about it. If it's better than siri, I'll get it just to crush the feelings of my I phone slaved friends.
i meant google jelly bean new voice search, ported to ics roms if it can be done.
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Smiley faces and lols are a good way to help people understand the intent when communicating in a text only environment. Too often people misconstrue what is being said because it sounds too blunt or rude. General language, spelling and grammar are definitely suffering beneath the onslaught of texting slang but don't throw the smiley faces under the bus, they aren't to blame.
But keeping to the topic at hand, voice search, voice texting and voice activate features are very helpful in a number of environments. And most of the voice search engines require that people speak properly as they don't usually respond to slang.
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I agree with you, you can't convey emotion, with text very well. The silly lol's and smiley's are one way to do that. Even with those things many people still take things the wrong way.
P.S. Lol
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JDinAZ74 said:
I agree with you, you can't convey emotion, with text very well. The silly lol's and smiley's are one way to do that. Even with those things many people still take things the wrong way.
P.S. Lol
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I see what you did there
Like the speed of the new the new search.
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PLEASE!
would be a tremendous hit! ICS already has a significant percent of representation in the android world, so if it is possible to port it would be awesome.
CM9 or AOKP definitely need this voice search!
Voice search has been ported for ICS. I'm about to try it in a bit
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1742652
Edit: my mistake I rushed to download and install but it's not the voice search. My bad
eao1991 said:
Voice search has been ported for ICS. I'm about to try it in a bit
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1742652
Edit: my mistake I rushed to download and install but it's not the voice search. My bad
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Did you really just fail!!? How could you do this to everyone...
I found a cool new feature.. I don't know if it was already present in the ICS build but I'm sure its new from JELLYBEAN
Long press the microphone button and you'll get a view of the clipboard!
it was there before, you would get a few choices when you held the mic , handwrite, clipboard, settings
Oh. LOL ! I never noticed maybe they didn't include it on the T999V model then.
I can't see the the clipboard after copying images and text to the clipboard. I see the options when long pressing the microphone but when i click the icon with the paper and the paperclip, nothing happens. I don't see what you see in the screenshot. I am on ICS
I don't know maybe they expanded the feature in jellybean? Can someone else confirm this?
I never knew that thats awesome! too bad I hate the samsung keyboard and stock messaging app lol
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I never knew that thats awesome! too bad I hate the samsung keyboard and stock messaging app lol
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I agree with you man.. on Jellybean they reformed the keyboard so much tho. Messaging app is still a bit on the hated side tho. Keyboard is 100 times better.
I was browsing / reading this post and instantly got annoyed with what you are doing. It seems you are trying to confuse readers by putting long signature with a “banner” or an advertisement if you will – I really do not want to check out your blog (even if it might be interesting), I don’t not want to see you advertisements. Sadly “De-Thanks” button isn’t available for you, in fact you should be paying to the XDA community for posting adds here.
Apologies for being harsh but what you are doing is not cool…
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I was browsing / reading this post and instantly got annoyed with what you are doing. It seems you are trying to confuse readers by putting long signature with a “banner” or an advertisement if you will – I really do not want to check out your blog (even if it might be interesting), I don’t not want to see you advertisements. Sadly “De-Thanks” button isn’t available for you, in fact you should be paying to the XDA community for posting adds here.
Apologies for being harsh but what you are doing is not cool…
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It's frankly upsetting man that you think like this. I have no intention of doing that, and it's not like I'm doing this for money or anything. I'm trying to be part of the community. They aren't frankly adds when I'm not running my own business. My signature offers members a free service and I'm improving my skills.. helps us both.
Sorry to hear man.
sweet i never noticed that lol
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I was browsing / reading this post and instantly got annoyed with what you are doing. It seems you are trying to confuse readers by putting long signature with a “banner” or an advertisement if you will – I really do not want to check out your blog (even if it might be interesting), I don’t not want to see you advertisements. Sadly “De-Thanks” button isn’t available for you, in fact you should be paying to the XDA community for posting adds here.
Apologies for being harsh but what you are doing is not cool…
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So what you are saying is no one should have 'ads' in their signature? So those linking to their custom roms, tutorials here on xda, video help links....should not post their 'ads' either? He is linking to his thread for custom work for the S3 and a link to relevant info on the S3. Whats the big deal? If you don't want to visit, just keep scrolling the thread. No on putting a gun to your head making you click his link.
If you cant stand people's signatures with links, go into your Control Panel and turn off signatures. Its that simple.
True say ^ Haha!
Anyways, can someone confirm if this "SAME" feature was there on ICS? With the little menu of clipboard copies underneath when you press it.
aklyrical said:
True say ^ Haha!
Anyways, can someone confirm if this "SAME" feature was there on ICS? With the little menu of clipboard copies underneath when you press it.
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Yup im on stock rom and its there.i never knew lol
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As the title says.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.talk
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As the title says.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.talk
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In my opinion one of the most stupid app form Google. No way to change online status or see who's online are you kidding me?? Only log-out. Old talk was lot better.
ashik992 said:
In my opinion one of the most stupid app form Google. No way to change online status or see who's online are you kidding me?? Only log-out. Old talk was lot better.
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Uhm, maybe you are right. But what I see is that Google is shifting the talk to the whatsapp/line/bbm -alike messaging. To think of it, I'd say it's not a bad move though as there's proven track record from the mentioned communication app even though the lack of "see who's online" option.
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Uhm, maybe you are right. But what I see is that Google is shifting the talk to the whatsapp/line/bbm -alike messaging. To think of it, I'd say it's not a bad move though as there's proven track record from the mentioned communication app even though the lack of "see who's online" option.
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Maybe works for others but not for me.
First time it's quite confused but after it's very intuitive :good: