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voice to text - "Sim free" -HTC say NO!

i email HTC to ask if the voice to text feature was disabled on the Sim Free version of the Desire and this is the response i got....
Thank you for your enquiry about voice to text.
Well the device does have voice to search via Google, so it should do. The only thing is you'll probably have to install some apps from market on the Device, hope this helps..
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So any one with the desire ATM does the above work? (i.e voice to search) i find the answer vague so i have asked for a yes or no answer to the question i asked. i quoted the desirehtc website where it states this feature will be available.
if anyone else has emailed HTC on this subject i would be interested in the response you got.
UPDATE
HTC have now resopnded with a Simple "NO" you will have to use a 3d party App.

no voice search here.
cos it's using the HTC IME, it is missing the microphone key that you get on the Android keyboard to use the voice to text functions.
whoever answered that at HTC obviously didn't have one to hand to check and was probably looking at the nexus....

Afternoon all,
After enabling the 'Voice to Text' as shown on How To Enable Voice To Text using one of the links on page 2 I have now got Google search by voice working on a T-Mobile Desire.
You don't have to change over to using the android keyboard if you don't want to use the main voice to text functionality, but now pressing and holding the search button brings up a pop-up on screen with 'Speak Now - Google Search' and a microphone symbol.
Seems to work fine to me.

works fine for me too.

Maybe it's coming in another update, this is from the htc website desirehtc dot com
" Android 2.1...
What's that all about then?
Launched in January 2010, and known in the trade as Eclair, this is basically an update to the operating system. In laymans terms, it's a sexier looking interface. But it's not quite that simple.
Now, for example, your Wallpapers can be animated, injecting your screen with a new lease of life. This works particularly well with the AMOLED screen.
Rather excitingly, it brings us into a realm where voice-to-text is a reality in all text fields. Imagine sending texts or emails simply by talking to your phone. Now do it, we're there. "

I'm sorry but voice search has always been there...

brummiesteven said:
I'm sorry but voice search has always been there...
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While u r 100% right about this bcaz u've got this voice2search on ur Desire....but I never had it on mine... Strange & annoying...
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K 7 said:
While u r 100% right about this bcaz u've got this voice2search on ur Desire....but I never had it on mine... Strange & annoying...
K7
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it is there you just need to enable it i guess

cez10 said:
it is there you just need to enable it i guess
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Can you please explain me steps how 2... appreciated.
K7

K 7 said:
Can you please explain me steps how 2... appreciated.
K7
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=655094
Here it is, tried and tested.
1. goto settings
2. goto text to speech and install voice data
3. goto http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UQC37DJC on your desire
5. download it
6. install it (you may get a prompt saying that you need to change your settings to allow it to install, so do so)
7. next in settings again goto language & keyboard
8. tick android keyboard
9. click android keyboard settings
10. make sure voice input is ticked.
11. go into messages and hold down on TAP TO COMPOSE
12. select input method
13. then select android keyboard
14. click the mic and start talking
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cez10 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=655094
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Cheers mate... great help, 1 more reason 2 love Desire...

Back to my orignal post.....
HTC tell me the voice - search is available by default (i.e not installing any other SW) they say it has to be enabled in settings then it work when using the search key/menu?
any one confirm this?

Actually, I also got a similar answer from HTC. I'm from Singapore though. Thus, most likely it is an unlocked version. My question was:
"Does the HTC Desire support the speech-to-text function out of the box? Does it also support AVI files? Thank You."
This is what i got.
"Thanks for contacting HTC.
For HTC Desire, it does have the function for Speech-to-text, but it doesn't support AVI file.
Thank you for your continuous support of our products and services. Should you require further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us again.
We look forward to be of service to you again."
From this reply, it seems obvious what the answer is. But the truth, from those who already got the phone, are far from it. I had specifically said out of the box. But, as told by owners, you need to download apps and everything for this function. Just FYI, I do not own the Desire...yet XD

HTC says NO! to voice enabled in default.

[Q] Jelly Bean Voice Search Woes ?

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"

ellimistx99 said:
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 ?

rajarshi10 said:
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 :/

123hiten said:
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.

rajarshi10 said:
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?

gubshi said:
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..

ellimistx99 said:
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

rajarshi10 said:
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

Evostance said:
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.

Google Now nerfed in 4.1.1.

FYI, many voice actions don't work in 4.1.1. For example, "Text John hello how are you" doesn't write the message out at all.
If you're a heavy user of the feature, beware. You may want to stick to 4.1.

enkoopa said:
FYI, many voice actions don't work in 4.1.1. For example, "Text John hello how are you" doesn't write the message out at all.
If you're a heavy user of the feature, beware. You may want to stick to 4.1.
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Perhaps you are not in the USA? If not, try changing your language settings to English (US).
From what I've heard the feature is not tuned for any other language setting so not everything is available unless you use US English.

enkoopa said:
FYI, many voice actions don't work in 4.1.1. For example, "Text John hello how are you" doesn't write the message out at all.
If you're a heavy user of the feature, beware. You may want to stick to 4.1.
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I have yakju and never had 4.1 before so was kinda thrilled to try the new voice actions out but when I tried none of them works and it only searches the web.
Tried stuff like:
"set the alarm for 6 o'clock"
"remind me in 10 minutes to buy a pizza"
"play carry on my wayward son by kansas"
It recognizes the speach correctly but instead of perfromring the actions it just searches google for the terms.
**** you Apple!

enkoopa said:
FYI, many voice actions don't work in 4.1.1. For example, "Text John hello how are you" doesn't write the message out at all.
If you're a heavy user of the feature, beware. You may want to stick to 4.1.
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Um... It worked for me. Try "Text John Message Hello how are you?".

Snoemannen said:
I have yakju and never had 4.1 before so was kinda thrilled to try the new voice actions out but when I tried none of them works and it only searches the web.
Tried stuff like:
"set the alarm for 6 o'clock"
"remind me in 10 minutes to buy a pizza"
"play carry on my wayward son by kansas"
It recognizes the speach correctly but instead of perfromring the actions it just searches google for the terms.
**** you Apple!
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You just can't speak right apparently. It works flawless for me - I'm on 4.1.1 stock rooted.

I'll play around some more, but I am on takju, US english.
Odd indeed... I do apologize if this turns out to be wrong.

Guys, if it doesn't work for you, its because your phone's language is not set to English (US). Try changing your language settings.
Edit: if your language settings are set to English (US), then I'm not sure

Working fine for me. Stock 4.1.1. I'm in Canada too.

It works for me just like previous 4.1

Yeah set everything to English (US) now and it seems to work now, had the system langueage set to English (UK) before.
Still can't get it to play songs from google music though and I thinks they did that in the demo but I guess I just have to try a little more.
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I'm just stupid and said "play" instead of "listen to"

Google now + asian accents = fail ?

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...

tohno said:
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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maliceomalice said:
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!

barrist said:
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

evil_penguin said:
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

evil_penguin said:
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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Google Navigation voice quality

I have the Galaxy Note 3 T-mobile version, and my question is how can I change Voice guidance quality?
Even though I have followed the steps in different threads regarding this matter, my voice quality is still set on the very robotic and annoying one.
Before you ask me if I have downloaded high quality voices; the answer is yes. I have also set it to high quality but it remains on US robotic crap quality. I want it to either be in Swedish or in United Kingdom English
Please someone help me out, I just can't endure the annoying voice while driving in LA.

SEXperiaX1 said:
I have the Galaxy Note 3 T-mobile version, and my question is how can I change Voice guidance quality?
Even though I have followed the steps in different threads regarding this matter, my voice quality is still set on the very robotic and annoying one.
Before you ask me if I have downloaded high quality voices; the answer is yes. I have also set it to high quality but it remains on US robotic crap quality. I want it to either be in Swedish or in United Kingdom English
Please someone help me out, I just can't endure the annoying voice while driving in LA.[/QUOT
I have same asking for this problem!!!
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SEXperiaX1 said:
I have the Galaxy Note 3 T-mobile version, and my question is how can I change Voice guidance quality?
Even though I have followed the steps in different threads regarding this matter, my voice quality is still set on the very robotic and annoying one.
Before you ask me if I have downloaded high quality voices; the answer is yes. I have also set it to high quality but it remains on US robotic crap quality. I want it to either be in Swedish or in United Kingdom English
Please someone help me out, I just can't endure the annoying voice while driving in LA.
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I too have a rooted T-Mobile note 3 and I got mine to work.
Did you go to "install voice data" and select the language you want, then select "high quality".
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I assume you are talking about the voice when using Google navigation? Why don't you download Google tts in the play store? Then make it your default in the phones setting.
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I assume you are talking about the voice when using Google navigation? Why don't you download Google tts in the play store? Then make it your default in the phones setting.
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I have done that and changed it to English (United Kingdom) and it says default language status (United Kingdom is fully supported.
The example speaks English (United Kingdom), but my Google Navigation still uses low quality English (United States)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.tts
Now go to language and input. Now to text to speech. Change from Samsung Tts to Google tts
Edit... Sorry I didn't see that you tried Google tts ... Try this from the Samsung app store
http://www.samsungapps.com/appquery...T.lang_en_gb_l01&cntyTxt=310&equipID=SM-N900T
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iakeco said:
I too have a rooted T-Mobile note 3 and I got mine to work.
Did you go to "install voice data" and select the language you want, then select "high quality".
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I follow your instruction but ot is not working properly.

I noticed it also, the US voice feels like robotic like no life at all.

I like this https://play.google.com/store/search?q=ivona text to speech voice for google maps.

thanks!

Ivona is the first thing I got when I got the $25 and then $50 free play dollars when I got my GN3. Use it a lot.

deeznutz1977 said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.tts
Now go to language and input. Now to text to speech. Change from Samsung Tts to Google tts
Edit... Sorry I didn't see that you tried Google tts ... Try this from the Samsung app store
http://www.samsungapps.com/appquery...T.lang_en_gb_l01&cntyTxt=310&equipID=SM-N900T
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This is what I recommended too and Google tts is no where close to sounding robotic. Something else is going on and his phone doesn't sound like it's using Google tts
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