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Oh my goodness...I thought these apps were jokes. I was reading this article talking about how we can get sht close to the new iPhone 4S features and Siri is one thing I didn't really look into so I got Vlingo. This sht is crazy! I wanted to try and throw it a curve ball by texting my friend by saying his last name (his last name isnt easy to spell. It's Arceneaux) and it actually got it. My mind is all messed up right now. If you ain't check it out, check it out.
Comes preinstalled....been out for a while I did beta test it.....glad you found it.
wytecaztle said:
Comes preinstalled....been out for a while I did beta test it.....glad you found it.
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I'm glad you said that.I could've sworn it came pre installed but before I went to go download it, I checked my app drawer and it wasn't there.
It's preinstalled..the word "Vlingo" is not in the app draw...its under "voice talk" and "voice command"..theres even a widget for it...i use it all the time ;-)
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It's preinstalled..the word "Vlingo" is not in the app draw...its under "voice talk" and "voice command"..theres even a widget for it...i use it all the time ;-)
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Ohhh haha I knew I saw it somewhere. This phone is amazing. Anything else i should know about?
You can change the text it says. Like when you say "hi galaxy" it normally says "what would you like to do?" I changed it to say "what do you want *****?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQVyjmnpbgs&sns=em
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Ok can someone explain to me why there are two apps?
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I don't mean to hijack the thread, but have u guys tried speaktoit app? It's the closest thing to Siri IMO.
I love Vlingo.
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vintage712 said:
Ok can someone explain to me why there are two apps?
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2 Vlingo's ? Samsung and Vlingo have a partnership and Vlingo installed on Samsung phones. There is one in the market also which you don't need unless you do not have a Samsung phone. Is that what you meant?
What about the google voice search, both come with phone whitch one is better
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There's Voice Command and Voice Talk on the phone. Kind of seem to do the same thing.
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Annoying me.
"launch Amazon," ding.............nothing happens. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
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What about the google voice search, both come with phone whitch one is better
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they both do the same thing. I prefer Vlingo as it seems to understand what I am saying better.
Actually, there is a difference. Voice talk is meant to be a completely hands-free experience, hence the ability to start voice recognition with a worded command.
Voice command has one added feature over voice talk, the ability to launch apps.
Why isn't this included in voice talk? I don't know, but I assume it's because you'll be using voice talk in hands-free environments (I.e. driving), so it would be counter-intuitive to launch something that requires hands. That's where the hand-dependent voice command app comes in. (Though you can have voice command start listening once the app is opened, but still requires a finger tap afterwards)
And remember, hitting the menu button in each app lets you switch between the two.
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Cant seem to get the version that came on the phone to read messages. The one in the market will read incoming messages to you.
I've been playing around with Vlingo on my E4GT after reading this thread, and while it's pretty cool, it's not quite up yet to what I've seen on the Siri demo videos.
Just for fun, download the Vlingo app from the market and ask it "what is an iPhone?".
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I've been playing around with Vlingo on my E4GT after reading this thread, and while it's pretty cool, it's not quite up yet to what I've seen on the Siri demo videos.
Just for fun, download the Vlingo app from the market and ask it "what is an iPhone?".
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Speak to it seems more similar, but theoretically less capable than vlingo, I think maybe? Not sure.
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Well, my phone ****ted on me hard on my way to work. Straight up hurt my feelings. Turned off and now it won't turn on at all. No more vlingo for me :'(
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Cant seem to get the version that came on the phone to read messages. The one in the market will read incoming messages to you.
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I know if you have the vlingo widget up and select "car mode" it will read them to you.
I never understood why google don't add a note taking / voice recording app to the AOSP, so wanted to see what you guys use that fills this gap?
I currently have flicknote for notes (syncs to my simplenote, which is great), don't have anything for audio recording at the moment.
I use Catch. It's backed up online, so if I'm flashing between ROMs I don't have to keep track of backing it up.
Evernote.
I have been using evernote from a long time now ... back in the days when I was on iphone 3g
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Evernote.
I have been using evernote from a long time now ... back in the days when I was on iphone 3g
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This. I use Evernote for all my note taking.
Ditto for Evernote, as far as note-taking goes. I've never needed to record audio notes, so can't comment there.
I use ColorNote, free app.
If you download LauncherPro, and open up the activities widget in the normal launcher, then scroll down to sound recorder option and select it, you will then have access to the hidden sound recorder app on the home screen, similar to how you access the Rocket Launcher.
Note Everything or Springpad, depending...
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Evernote.
I have been using evernote from a long time now ... back in the days when I was on iphone 3g
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I've tried Evernote, but I find it absolutely enraging that you can't see your notes if you're offline. This is a huge problem, IMHO.
I've been using NoteEverything Pro for a while, which I really like.
Color note for me, nice and simple note taking with optional auto backup to online. Dont use any audio notes myself so not got a suggestion for that.
Note Everything +1
AK notepad and take-a-talk on my mytouch 4g
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I saw a demo online comparing s voice to google voice search, and of coarse for 95% of the things google won no contest, but I was surprised that s voice could say update twitter and give a message and work, where google could not do this at all yet. Just wondering if they are planning on it being able to do basically everything the other can but better?
You mean Google Now? I believe it comes with every phone/tablet that has JB. If we get JB on the S3 then we will get Google Now, unless they disable it so we become stuck with garbage S Voice.
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You mean Google Now? I believe it comes with every phone/tablet that has JB. If we get JB on the S3 then we will get Google Now, unless they disable it so we become stuck with garbage S Voice.
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We already have google now on the s3. Works rather well
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We already have google now on the s3. Works rather well
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I think OP is referring to have more control with Google Now like specific app or hardware controls.
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I think OP is referring to have more control with Google Now like specific app or hardware controls.
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Yes this is what I meant. Again if you look online for demos one of them shows that it works well, but still does not have full control or access to all apps and such, it literally gives an error that the feature is not working yet. I can only assume since it gives that actual error that they are planning on it having this ability soon, which makes since.
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Yes this is what I meant. Again if you look online for demos one of them shows that it works well, but still does not have full control or access to all apps and such, it literally gives an error that the feature is not working yet. I can only assume since it gives that actual error that they are planning on it having this ability soon, which makes since.
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That feature doesn't appear to be available on any phone just yet, it just brings up a google search.
I dunno, I tried Google now and really didn't find it all that great. I couldn't launch apps or dictate what I want done on the app. s voice has been pretty solid for me.
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Judging from the recent i9300 international JB leak, it looks like we will have access to both S-Voice and Google Now. So for those who prefer one over the other, it looks like SGS3 users will be able to use either which is good news. I was hoping that Samsung wouldn't remove Google Now from the JB rom when it comes out and so far looks good
I kinda hope they just put the ability to control apps in Google Now, I would not want to have to swap from one to the other just to ask a question, then swap to the other to launch an app. Might as well just launch it manually if your gonna have to do that each time. S Voice is only better for this one thing, ask it anything that requires it to look on the web for the answer and its slow as hell, Google Now is the best for this now, better than siri, so add in the app control and its the king.
I hope with the official JB release coming out soon we will find out for certain if Google Now will have full app controls like s voice.
S voice six because its developed by vlingo who IMO was the worst assistant app... I have the note with paranoid android 4.1.1 and Google now is awesome..until someone ports it to your device I recommend assistant from the Google play market
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How can I make a favorites page in the phone app? It's a bummer having to scroll through 200 contacts when I frequently use only 8 on a daily basis.
Does anyone know of a good notes application similar to the iPhone one? I used Gmail sync on the iPhone (so my notes are saved) and just need a no hassle way to save text quickly.
Can I somehow get a few of the Samsung apps back? I suppose the only thing I really miss at this moment is the voice recorder...
Thanks,
T
trimalchioinwestegg said:
How can I make a favorites page in the phone app? It's a bummer having to scroll through 200 contacts when I frequently use only 8 on a daily basis.
Does anyone know of a good notes application similar to the iPhone one? I used Gmail sync on the iPhone (so my notes are saved) and just need a no hassle way to save text quickly.
Can I somehow get a few of the Samsung apps back? I suppose the only thing I really miss at this moment is the voice recorder...
Thanks,
T
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To add favorites (they appear on the 3rd tab in the Phone app), open their contact and click the Star up in the top-right corner.
That's a negative on samsung apps. Go find a voice recorder in the market.
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trimalchioinwestegg said:
Does anyone know of a good notes application similar to the iPhone one? I used Gmail sync on the iPhone (so my notes are saved) and just need a no hassle way to save text quickly.
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The "best" note app is EverNote
Can I somehow get a few of the Samsung apps back? I suppose the only thing I really miss at this moment is the voice recorder...
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I've been using Easy Voice Recorder for quite a while now (though the free version has a recording limit of something like 1 hour). It even includes a widget for instant recording. Give it a try. The S3 with noise cancellation makes for an excellent recording device. I've dubbed its audio tracks over video and after a little audacity post-process you'd be hard-pressed to tell it wasn't recorded on a pro microphone.
None of the Samsung apps will be coming to CM or AOKP, because their fangs are sunk too deep into the touchwiz framework itself and can't stand alone.
Thanks for the detailed reply. EverNote seems like it will let me record audio and also attach some text with it, which will be ideal for song demos while I'm working out the lyrics. If that doesn't work I'll give EVR a try.
Who knows, I may end up going back to TouchWiz once the official Jelly Bean update is out, but I'm really enjoying CM in the meantime.
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Anyone know how to tell Swype Beta to use google voice instead of the fire "Dragon Dictate" as Jellybean has offline voice typing and is far superior.
Just a shame the stock samsung keyboard with its swipe isnt as good.
Anyway, so far only way Ive found by leaving swype as default is to pull down notification bar when Im about to do voice typing and just select google voice from the input method.
I would just prefer to press the mic button though...
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Anyone know how to tell Swype Beta to ......
Thanks
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+1
Swipe is owned by the same company as dragon so it will not use google voice
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Phone_Guru said:
Swipe is owned by the same company as dragon so it will not use google voice
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Jaytt was asking about ways to tweak it to do so, not whether or not it would officially support it.
Swype is not open source correct?
If not, could one develop an app that overlaps the voice button on Swype provides that launches Google Voice instead?
rkhayat said:
Swype is not open source correct?
If not, could one develop an app that overlaps the voice button on Swype provides that launches Google Voice instead?
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A big +1 to this - there are many that seem to want this. Is it even possible?
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Swype is not open source correct?
If not, could one develop an app that overlaps the voice button on Swype provides that launches Google Voice instead?
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Big Plus one on this too...
+1
anyone who knows how to get me started on having an overlay to a keyboard??? can you skin it?
Maybe you can try KII Keyboard. It's pretty good but it doesn't have the shortcuts. It uses Google Voice though. Check it out!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zl.inputmethod.latin
Jaytt said:
Hi
Anyone know how to tell Swype Beta to use google voice instead of the fire "Dragon Dictate" as Jellybean has offline voice typing and is far superior.
Just a shame the stock samsung keyboard with its swipe isnt as good.
Anyway, so far only way Ive found by leaving swype as default is to pull down notification bar when Im about to do voice typing and just select google voice from the input method.
I would just prefer to press the mic button though...
Thanks
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Is it really matter to have Swype with Google voice?
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w1nter456 said:
Is it really matter to have Swype with Google voice?
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If one likes Swype but HATES the terrible predictive speech recognition of Dragon Go, yes it does matter.
That being said, I guess we can't do it, so thanks to the poster who brought Kii to our attention; it'll do, though it's not as fluid as Swype for keyboard swyping.
Temporary Solution
Sorry that I'm a little late getting in on this thread, but I have a temp solve.
(Disclaimer ... for anyone interested: I, too, use Swype, religiously, because it is way faster than any other gesturing keyboard in Android - I type a lot of text, using a Note 2, and Swype is constantly helping me break all my speed records. Dragon, however, is a pain, for one, because it is not as stable as Google Voice, often giving me grief when connectivity is sporadic; but also because the software is slightly more bloated than Google Voice, causing the annoying "fade in" graphical interface which drags down on its listening response time. This lag is noticeable when you are "Swyping" at 80 words a minute when transitioning to speaking texts suddenly takes 4 times as long as "Swyping.")
Sooooo...
A temporary solution (despite the extra key presses) is to...
1) Long press on the text window
2) Select "Full Editor" from the pop up menu
3) Tap the "Google Mic" icon
And that's pretty much it. It is, unfortunately, an annoying solution, but for me, it's working faster than Dragon on the average. Hope that helps someone, particularly JoeyDVDZ
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Sorry that I'm a little late getting in on this thread, but I have a temp solve.
(Disclaimer ... for anyone interested: I, too, use Swype, religiously, because it is way faster than any other gesturing keyboard in Android - I type a lot of text, using a Note 2, and Swype is constantly helping me break all my speed records. Dragon, however, is a pain, for one, because it is not as stable as Google Voice, often giving me grief when connectivity is sporadic; but also because the software is slightly more bloated than Google Voice, causing the annoying "fade in" graphical interface which drags down on its listening response time. This lag is noticeable when you are "Swyping" at 80 words a minute when transitioning to speaking texts suddenly takes 4 times as long as "Swyping.")
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A temporary solution (despite the extra key presses) is to...
1) Long press on the text window
2) Select "Full Editor" from the pop up menu
3) Tap the "Google Mic" icon
And that's pretty much it. It is, unfortunately, an annoying solution, but for me, it's working faster than Dragon on the average. Hope that helps someone, particularly JoeyDVDZ
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Joey,
Appreciate it, but I don't believe that this will work on many devices. I think it is dependent on what program you use for SMS/MMS as well....
Art. itheyxc
Try this:
https://plus.google.com/108096915458146487046/posts/i8iSG2yovVo
Just pull the notification bar down when you have swype up, and choose google voice typing.
Credit to the guy who posted this on google+
This was bugging me too - but then I actually tried google voice typing...not so great so far, but i'll keep trying
this trick doesn't work for me... maybe it is not for CM10?
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If not, could one develop an app that overlaps the voice button on Swype provides that launches Google Voice instead?
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Not having Google Voice with Swype finally bothered me enough that I have been working on such a thing! I have a proof-of-concept working fairly well on my phone (Nexus 4), and now I'd like to find someone with a rooted S3 willing to try it out there. It requires root to be able to inject keystrokes into an app. If you have a rooted S3, please shoot me a message at [email protected], and I'll discuss it with you some more.
(I've posted a similar message in the S4 section. Since these are two of the most popular devices, I'd like to see if, and how well, it works on them before pursuing it further.)
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Not having Google Voice with Swype finally bothered me enough that I have been working on such a thing! I have a proof-of-concept working fairly well on my phone (Nexus 4), and now I'd like to find someone with a rooted S3 willing to try it out there. It requires root to be able to inject keystrokes into an app. If you have a rooted S3, please shoot me a message at [email protected], and I'll discuss it with you some more.
(I've posted a similar message in the S4 section. Since these are two of the most popular devices, I'd like to see if, and how well, it works on them before pursuing it further.)
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This used to be a worry of mine, until Google was nice enough to release their own keyboard!!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.inputmethod.latin&hl=en
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This used to be a worry of mine, until Google was nice enough to release their own keyboard!!
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Yes, it's built in to my Nexus 4, but it's not as good as Swype at getting the word I want. I've tried them all, and I always end up coming back to Swype. Google's voice typing is better than Dragon Dictate, though, so this is the best of both.
There is a way
jaytt said:
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anyone know how to tell swype beta to use google voice instead of the fire "dragon dictate" as jellybean has offline voice typing and is far superior.
Just a shame the stock samsung keyboard with its swipe isnt as good.
Anyway, so far only way ive found by leaving swype as default is to pull down notification bar when im about to do voice typing and just select google voice from the input method.
I would just prefer to press the mic button though...
Thanks
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there is way but you must be rooted and have xposed installer installed, there will be this app called googleofflinevoice. Download it and restart then just double click on the dragon go icon and google voice will appear. Have fun!