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[Q] Google Search Assistant - Does it work out of the USA?

I've been trying Jelly Bean on my GN for a couple days now and, while the whole experience has been awesome, there is a particular feature announced at I/O that does not work: the Search Assistant. You know, those Siri-like cards with info that show up after you perform a Google search while a voice reads them out.
Is that working for you guys living in the USA? What about those who, like me, live abroad? Does it have a geographical restriction? Is it just still not live yet?
Would welcome some help about this.

one of the option in the google now/voice thing is "use google.com instead of localised google". If you check that as 'yes' then you would get the cards with pics how up, but if you say "what is the weather" or "what is the time" it would always default to Washington DC, USA no matter where you are outside USA (And other issues like "what is the weather in waterloo shows me waterloo, USA instead of waterloo, canada).
that being said...
the voice search works fine otherwise with localised search. As much as it bugs me to not have those cards with the pic show up after a voice search, its mosly a "for looks" thing. voice search assisstant works perfectly however, it also shows cards (just not with pictures) for results as it should.

TjPhysicist said:
one of the option in the google now/voice thing is "use google.com instead of localised google". If you check that as 'yes' then you would get the cards with pics how up
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Not in my case. I asked it to use google.com, disabled using my location and even changed the language to US English, but to no avail. Maybe it just also works in Canada?

frandavid100 said:
Not in my case. I asked it to use google.com, disabled using my location and even changed the language to US English, but to no avail. Maybe it just also works in Canada?
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try turning it off and back on, or erasing data/cache for that app, sometimes resetting it does the trick.

Hm... no, no dice. What I would really like is to know if this is also happening to other folks in Europe.

frandavid100 said:
Hm... no, no dice. What I would really like is to know if this is also happening to other folks in Europe.
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Works "alright" here in the UK. I can set alarms, send texts and if I say "weather" it brings up the weather in my location as well as speaks it back. Also works for weather in other locations. Cards with images and data DO pop up, but it is a bit hit and miss. A lot of the time you just get a google search. However, the navigation if I have just searched for a place on Google works well. I done a search for an address earlier to see where it was in relation to me, 30 seconds later I had a navigation card informing me of the route a possible delays. I'm happy with it, when it works (which is most of the time) its a fantastic addition.
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tbe cooklys
If you are still having trouble, you may want to check out this tutorial which made it work for me in Germany: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28043720&postcount=1
Interestingly, after I had google.com set as search engine, Google Now always thought I was in Washington and thus only showed Washington-based Information to me. Thus I switched back to google.de, now getting local information about my actual location. Google Now still works for me without having the search engine set to google.com
Cheers
CT

[Q] am i having google now issues?

Been running jb since it was available. Google now will tell me the weather and remind me of my calendar appointments. But it still won't advise me of traffic during my commute to work. I set up my own profile in the people app with my home and work address but it still doesn't work. Any advice?
Also, seems like the only way I can enjoy Google nows voice is when I ask for a definition. What else can one ask or say to get a verbal response?

sheek360;28393210 But it still won't advise me of traffic during my commute to work. I set up my own profile in the people app with my home and work address but it still doesn't work. Any advice?
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You don't set it there. You set it in the desktop Google Maps > my places > Home / Work. Or on the Maps app under location history settings
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Thanks for the help. But the maps app doesn't have a location history setting. At least none I can see

I fixed it. Lattitude was off.
How do you go about making Google now a little more talkative?

sheek360 said:
I fixed it. Lattitude was off.
How do you go about making Google now a little more talkative?
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Usually knowledge graph queries will make it talk "Who is the Prime Minister of England?" "How tall is the Eiffel Tower?" "What time is it in Tokyo?" "What is the weather in Moscow?" "Who won the Nationals game yesterday?"

What is the time, what is the date, what are the pizza stores around me..
it's very cool to see its answers sometimes.

I ask these things and mine usually does a Google search n stays silent. Odd

sheek360 said:
I ask these things and mine usually does a Google search n stays silent. Odd
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1. Make sure device language is US English
2. Set google.com as your search location and not your local version (eg. google.cn) This, however, will break local search results (your weather will show up as Washington, DC)

harveydent said:
1. Make sure device language is US English
2. Set google.com as your search location and not your local version (eg. google.cn) This, however, will break local search results (your weather will show up as Washington, DC)
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Mine works with my google location as my local setting :O

Mine is hit or miss with voice when asking things.

Google maps home\work location

Hy guys,
Tought I'd post this as help to those who need it (like I did..)
I'm using google now and liking the location and weather cards, I followed this simple explanation by H3g3m0n :
To set Home/Work on Android (It's kind of hidden):
Start Maps
Tap on your icon (The blue dot on the map, this should have your contact photo on it not just the blue arrow. You can pull it up by turning on the Latitude option.)
Tap on your name that appears above it
Tap location History
Tap the menu dots down the bottom right
The you get the Change home/work location options
this is a brief how-to on how to set home and work locations in google maps so that google now will know where i live and work and start giving me cards about that info.
But after I did that I learned that google now will automatically learn where I live and work and that sounded really cool and so I wanted to delete the information I specified in order to let google now figure it out for itself.. I couldnt find any way to delete that information.. until I logged into google maps from my desktop, and had been given the option to delete home and work locations. today is the first day I went to work with the JB and google now updates so I'm gonna let google now figure it out for the next couple of days and see what comes out GOTTA LOVE GOOGLE!

Thanks for sharing the tip but I am curious - why would you want to go back and let Google Now figure it out if you were already able to specify home and work locations yourself?

ohmyggg said:
Thanks for sharing the tip but I am curious - why would you want to go back and let Google Now figure it out if you were already able to specify home and work locations yourself?
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Well first of all I wanted to see how google now learns my locations by itself, sounds pretty cool
And second - lets say I specified a street name and number and the gps\wifi detects that my home is one street number off (my street is smll and numbers can be as close as 20 meters) then it won't know I'm at home, I guess I didnt want to restrict an address to a certain street number but rather give google now the oppertunity to learn where I live on a larger radius

Erase job?
I can't seem to erase my job. I was laid off a month ago and Google now is a glaring remind every time I open it when it tells me how far I am from my old office. Kinda depressing lol its like you have to have an address there. I've cleared my work location on Google maps but Google now just doesn't get it.

dwreck420 said:
I can't seem to erase my job. I was laid off a month ago and Google now is a glaring remind every time I open it when it tells me how far I am from my old office. Kinda depressing lol its like you have to have an address there. I've cleared my work location on Google maps but Google now just doesn't get it.
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Did you try logging in to Google maps from your computer? there is an option there to see your places (home and work) and edit\delete them.
p.s Sorry to hear about your job situation, good luck

omricn said:
Well first of all I wanted to see how google now learns my locations by itself, sounds pretty cool
And second - lets say I specified a street name and number and the gps\wifi detects that my home is one street number off (my street is smll and numbers can be as close as 20 meters) then it won't know I'm at home, I guess I didnt want to restrict an address to a certain street number but rather give google now the oppertunity to learn where I live on a larger radius
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Google has always done a pretty good job of knowing where I am all the time and deciding where is work and where is home. Years ago my roommate and I would use Latitude to keep tabs on each other. Google Now kind of tapped into what google already knew. Having your wifi on helps Google determine your location, especially if you have wifi at work/home, but even if you don't.

omricn said:
Did you try logging in to Google maps from your computer? there is an option there to see your places (home and work) and edit\delete them.
p.s Sorry to hear about your job situation, good luck
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lol thanks, yes, i went to the site but removing the entry says "invalid location" so i just put my home address in there (lol) and it shut up.

dwreck420 said:
lol thanks, yes, i went to the site but removing the entry says "invalid location" so i just put my home address in there (lol) and it shut up.
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Hope you'll put something else there soon..

i want to set my home location but it always force me to enter the address and my home is not near any addresss how can i menually edit or point on map to set my home location?

nicholes said:
i want to set my home location but it always force me to enter the address and my home is not near any addresss how can i menually edit or point on map to set my home location?
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Just right click on your desired location, then click on "what's here" (last option down the box) and your coordinates will be displayed in the search bar, just copy them into the address box.

omricn said:
Just right click on your desired location, then click on "what's here" (last option down the box) and your coordinates will be displayed in the search bar, just copy them into the address box.
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Well it gives right position in my computer but when I see maps in my mobile it gives almost 1 kilometer far from my position what I save in computer. Is this some kind of bug?
EDIT: it saves what ever address is near that position and assume it as my home. and nearest address is
Manik Bagh Over Bridge, Nandanvan Colony
Indore, Madhya Pradesh 452014, India ‎ 385 m NE
and my home is almost 1km far from here
i dont know how to set my home location in google maps> please help me

Is there anything a can do to train Google now voice

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!

johnw230873 said:
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...

ebagdirtbike said:
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.

Contacts App Questions

Hi guys,
I am thinking of buying a Pixel XL. I played with one today at the store and I found a disturbing issue to me. If I add a contact it only gives me one line for the address. Exactly the same BS like on the web portal of gmail.
Usually, you can click somewhere and expand the address field to more but single fields for street, city, country and so on.
This one line might work just great if you use only US addresses, but as soon you get into international addresses from countries around the world. Google can't handle the input anymore and gets confused what is what.
Was I just to blind to see how to expand the field or is it really that bad? Now I would need to install a second contacts app with this option. Great job Google!!!

Not sure if this a feasible work around but you could possible try a differnt contact apps?
See here: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Contacts&c=apps&hl=en

Scott said:
Not sure if this a feasible work around but you could possible try a differnt contact apps?
See here: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Contacts&c=apps&hl=en
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That was my thougt too. but thats stupid. Esepcially if its just used to add addresses. So far I havent seen a phone which doesnt have the expandable address field except the PIxels

Snake-Plissken said:
Hi guys,
I am thinking of buying a Pixel XL. I played with one today at the store and I found a disturbing issue to me. If I add a contact it only gives me one line for the address. Exactly the same BS like on the web portal of gmail.
Usually, you can click somewhere and expand the address field to more but single fields for street, city, country and so on.
This one line might work just great if you use only US addresses, but as soon you get into international addresses from countries around the world. Google can't handle the input anymore and gets confused what is what.
Was I just to blind to see how to expand the field or is it really that bad? Now I would need to install a second contacts app with this option. Great job Google!!!
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I may not be understanding correctly, but I just tried adding a new contact and I was able to add a multi-line address. I just hit enter after each line and a new line appeared.
Eg.
1234 Street name
City
Province
Postal Code
Is this what you meant, or did I misunderstand the problem?

As I'm German and only save German, a few French, Danish and some addresses from Luxembourg I too don't see the problem.
As mentioned above you can always hit enter for another line but even if you don't and write it all in one line Google is always smart enough to know where to navigate me.
Correct me but if you have saved a contact with an address and you hit it you get directed to maps, maps searches instantly for the address and it doesn't even matter if postal code, town or even country is missing.

DanVanDamn said:
As I'm German and only save German, a few French, Danish and some addresses from Luxembourg I too don't see the problem.
As mentioned above you can always hit enter for another line but even if you don't and write it all in one line Google is always smart enough to know where to navigate me.
Correct me but if you have saved a contact with an address and you hit it you get directed to maps, maps searches instantly for the address and it doesn't even matter if postal code, town or even country is missing.
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I tried to do the same before in the web portal of gmail. No matter if i enter everything in one line or hit enter. Google got confused. I dont remember what addresses gave me problems. I think one was Butan, Kazachstan, Peru and Chile I believe.
Also if i view the entry from the web portal on my mobile (galaxy note) and I go to edit contact. The address is completly mixed up. In the city field is the street, street is country and so on. It was a big mess up. I dont know if Google already improved that. I stopped using the web portal and entered the addresses on mobile where I had the actual fields for City, Street, ZIP and so on...
I dont have a Pixel yet so cant try a lot. I played with it in a Verizon store....