Please forgive me, I have searched but 'Google Now' isn't a great search term...
Basically, I get no voice feedback when using voice search or the Google Now app on my 4.1.1 Jelly Bean update. Initially I was underwhelmed by Google Now and wondered what the fuss was, until I discovered it should be talking back to me in a Siri-like fashion.
I had the leaked 4.1 I/O release previously and same issue. Language is English and I have voice prompts turned on in the search settings.
Any ideas? It's a Google stock ROM and it never worked, so I really don't know what it could be.
Edit: Nevermind, same discussion here. Too bad there's no time-limited delete functionality here, feel free to delete.
Try this
There is my solution:
- Set your locale to whatever you want
- Set the Google Now Voice Language to English US
- Voice Output to Always
- Remove the tick(untick the box) on Hide Offensive Words
I spent hours of tinkering with this and tried all kinds of options, but in the end that solved it for me. This is because recently there was an update to Google Search, which is the application designation for Google Now and it introduced this bug.
I have my locale to my native one English UK en-GB and everything works like a charm as it should be and as it used to work before the update.
goliath969 said:
There is my solution:
- Set your locale to whatever you want
- Set the Google Now Voice Language to English US
- Voice Output to Always
- Remove the tick(untick the box) on Hide Offensive Words
I spent hours of tinkering with this and tried all kinds of options, but in the end that solved it for me. This is because recently there was an update to Google Search, which is the application designation for Google Now and it introduced this bug.
I have my locale to my native one English UK en-GB and everything works like a charm as it should be and as it used to work before the update.
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I have same problem with google now and this setup not helped
How about this
vintermut said:
I have same problem with google now and this setup not helped
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Make sure that you have downloaded the offline speech recognition in English US and maybe try asking something like "What's the time?". It will not talk back to all questions. Only the ones that were specifically pre-programmed. If it still doesn't work, try putting your system locale to English US and restarting your phone. And most importantly update your Talkback, Google Search and Google Voice search apps to their latest through the Play Store.
What I did now officially works on my O2 HTC One S and 3UK HTC One X, so it works for sure on those two.
I hope this helps
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The newly announce updated Voice Search app (including Voice Actions) is not downloading on my Desire. It's not even there on the market.
yep, me too
Has an U.S. chums got the .apks ? Will that work?
its up now for uk users dude!
Just showed up on Irish market and installed no problem
Popple3 said:
Just showed up on Irish market and installed no problem
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Does the "send text to" or "listen to" functionality work? I can't get these to work. However the maps/ directions / call functionality does work for me.
Rooted official Froyo
I managed to get it downloaded and working via Appbrain
Woo hoo. Also got it but text and email options not working? Anyone got this working?
nb8k said:
Does the "send text to" or "listen to" functionality work? I can't get these to work. However the maps/ directions / call functionality does work for me.
Rooted official Froyo
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"Send text to" works fine. "Listen to" or "set alarm" don't though. The HTC apps need to be updated to support it
Official Froyo, not rooted
Does this give us bluetooth voice dialling by a roundabout route?
It won't install on my desire. Pays froyo rom.
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al89nut said:
Does this give us bluetooth voice dialling by a roundabout route?
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Yes. I can press the button and say "Call Buster" and it does a quick countdown followed by dialling that number. Haven't tried with bluetooth but I assume it would.
I guess the problem is that you still have to press a button, but it is a move forward
I set voice recognition in settings to English us and it all works now
mottchew said:
I set voice recognition in settings to English us and it all works now
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Nice one!!!! Works much better. Which music apps support it?
Found answer: Pandora, Last.fm, mspot, spotify and Rdio according to the website
nb8k said:
Nice one!!!! Works much better. Which music apps support it?
Found answer: Pandora, Last.fm, mspot, spotify and Rdio according to the website
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Have you worked out how to pick which music app you want? I have the standard music app, Spotify and Last.fm and it keeps defaulting to Last.fm.
Once the language is set in settings to English US it becomes infinitely more useful. Probably getting about 90% accuracy with complete random results. Test emails, texts, calling the chicken shop across the road from where I live, the closest McDonald's to where I live, and even my work place. All flawlessly! Very impressed.
I don't have English US in Settings>Language - just UK and Ireland
Edit - however I do in Settings> Voice Input and Output - is that what you mean?
Edit 2 - yes, that changes it.
al89nut said:
I don't have English US in Settings>Language - just UK and Ireland
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Settings > Voice input & ouput > Voice recognizer settings > Language
Oooh. Changing to English US made all the difference. I was on English UK and it wouldn't recognise "text" and "email" commands. Now it's great! Remember to block offensive words unless you specifically need to swear because even the most innocent of texts ended up with an f-word or two. Not exactly what I was expecting but anyhow
Hi, i have a HTC Desire unroot and unbranded and fully updated to everything that is possibly out for the device. lately for some odd reason when i use apps such as google map navigation or the new google translate (with the sms translate and convo translate) it has been speaking program codes for the google map navigation and for the google translate, especially the asian dialogs and some other language. Currently have the espeaktt selected for voice output, i have tried uninstalling and reinstalling but the same problem still consist. I don't know if its cause the apps are still in beta or is it just me. If its just me can anyone help me and tell me how to fix this problem?
Thank you
From what I understand of your post it does sound like its a bug in their app. If the app is reading you system code instead of the proper directions. It is most likely a problem inside the app. You should report the issue to the developer via the appropriate channels.
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From what I understand of your post it does sound like its a bug in their app. If the app is reading you system code instead of the proper directions. It is most likely a problem inside the app. You should report the issue to the developer via the appropriate channels.
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thanks a lot for the info. I just tried the google maps navigation with another voice engine and it was fine so if I'm not mistaken i think its the espeaktt app.
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I don't know if this has been asked or not, but with CM9, I'm having trouble getting voice dictation installed. I know that it comes with the bamtau-gapps.zip and it works in there - but since those gapps differ from the ones that the CM9 devs provided they overwrite my gapps and cause my Google account to be lost in the process.
I was able to successfully install the voice search apk from the bamtau-gapps - which provides the ICS voice search as opposed to the one from the market (it basically is the same, just looks nicer). What I'm really looking for is voice dictation on the keyboard. I'm just wondering what apk's provide that so that I can pick and choose and build a zip that only overwrites certain apk's not all of them so I don't run into an issue with my Google account disappearing.
If anyone knows, I'd appreciate the help.
At this point in time I've tried adding:
VoiceSearch.apk
GoogleTTS.apk
to the gapps and was only successful with VoiceSearch, GoogleTTS did nothing (that I noticed).
Thanks in advance.
Edit: I guess the title of this thread should really be, "Needing voice dictation apk names" since I already have voice search figured out
According to the CM9 OP (or in the Blog or perhaps in that thread some place) voice dic is not a go at the moment (upstream issue?)....unless I don't understand what you're asking.
Question: What's the name of that add-on to Goggle maps that voice the turns more clear and better
Back in the Android 2.1 and 2.2 there was an add-on to the Google Maps the enabled to voice of the navigate to pronounce the turns and streets more like a person. Every time you flashed a 2.2 rom or 2.3 rom and installed Google Maps, there was a service agreement banner that popped up and then gave you the option to update the Google map with an add-on that enabled the voice to sound more human.
so if you were to make a 10 mile commute in the city, the voice would prononce the streets as they sound and give you the turn by turn directions more fluidly.
Now with the Galaxy S4 phone, the Google Map voice is lacking the fluid personal voice. The voice is just god awful. sounds like a zombie that is giving you the directions and names but not the turns as fluid as before.
If anyone remembers that name of the add-on or a link to it, I would be much appreciated.
I didn't know there was such a thing! I am curious to find out what it is now! I noticed that the navigation voice is pretty awful at pronouncing street names myself. Would really enjoy a less robotic sound myself.
serendipityguy said:
Question: What's the name of that add-on to Goggle maps that voice the turns more clear and better
Back in the Android 2.1 and 2.2 there was an add-on to the Google Maps the enabled to voice of the navigate to pronounce the turns and streets more like a person. Every time you flashed a 2.2 rom or 2.3 rom and installed Google Maps, there was a service agreement banner that popped up and then gave you the option to update the Google map with an add-on that enabled the voice to sound more human.
so if you were to make a 10 mile commute in the city, the voice would prononce the streets as they sound and give you the turn by turn directions more fluidly.
Now with the Galaxy S4 phone, the Google Map voice is lacking the fluid personal voice. The voice is just god awful. sounds like a zombie that is giving you the directions and names but not the turns as fluid as before.
If anyone remembers that name of the add-on or a link to it, I would be much appreciated.
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it is trial and error....
Monkz said:
I didn't know there was such a thing! I am curious to find out what it is now! I noticed that the navigation voice is pretty awful at pronouncing street names myself. Would really enjoy a less robotic sound myself.
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I guess their are some options under the Language and input as to chose the Text to speech options.
The options are either Samsung or Google and then it a tweaking of the speech synthesis and it is trial and error....
Do you mean the navigation add on that comes with maps? That speaks turn by turn with s natural voice
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Question: What's the name of that add-on to Goggle maps that voice the turns more clear and better
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Imho, the Samsung TTS engine woman's voice is much better sounding, and was updated. The Google TTS is, well, not very good.
thatsupnow said:
Do you mean the navigation add on that comes with maps? That speaks turn by turn with s natural voice
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Yes . . .
Pinan said:
Imho, the Samsung TTS engine woman's voice is much better sounding, and was updated. The Google TTS is, well, not very good.
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Yes I do agree, after sampling the two voices with the Voice engines it was clear that the Samsung was the winer of the two.
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Have the Row ROM fully updated. All apps updated including Google play services. Am I being thick? Or has Google assistant simply not rolled out yet? Seem to just have generic Google now voice recognition.
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Try common how to's with changing languages. It worked for me.
It's not available in the UK so you have to change your language to English US.
Awesome. Sorted, thanks!!!