So googles voice engine is pretty lame IMHO. I didn't find the voice and pronunciations to be clear enough. I am quite pleased with Ivona text-to-speech engine. Its free and available in the play store. Sorry I would link, but I haven't reached my ten submissions.
Setup is pretty self explanatory:
1. download the app
2. Open app and choose desired voice (download takes a minute or two)
3. select the voice engine settings/language & input/text-to-speach
Hope this helps!
rockstang said:
Sorry I would link, but I haven't reached my ten submissions.
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Here ya go:
Main app
Personally, I like the British English voice.
The Australian one is also not bad.
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Is it possible to add my custom voice for the gps?
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Yeah that would be cool. Like the garmin in my car has about 10-12 diff voices.
Settings -> Text-to-speech -> Language -> British English (in 2.1)
Settings -> Voice input & output -> Text-to-speech settings -> Language -> British English (in 2.2)
you might have to download it from the market (I did in cm6 by going to: Settings > Voice input & output > Text-to-speech settings > Install voice data). you also might need to check off "Always use my settings" also. Even with British English selected, distances are Imperial (feet/yards/miles) not Metric.
Have fun playing with the speech rate also
Thank you for the reply but I meant if I can make a custom sentence. Ex: "turn .right at so and so" to " bust a right at so and so".
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novanosis85 said:
Thank you for the reply but I meant if I can make a custom sentence. Ex: "turn .right at so and so" to " bust a right at so and so".
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Then no that isn't possible...
novanosis85 said:
Thank you for the reply but I meant if I can make a custom sentence. Ex: "turn .right at so and so" to " bust a right at so and so".
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Not with Google Nav, unfortunately. Might want to post a feature request to Google for it.
Well here's to hoping.....
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Google Nav is still in beta, every nav system has voice options, Google Nav just has synthesized voice right now. It is not a priority, but it will happen before it leaves beta, which with google could be a while but i would expect this feature within a year.
Yes you can change the voice for the navigation, it is a standardized voice for the whole phone. There just are not many alternate voice options yet to do so. The market only has two voices that I found, one is free and very bad, the other is a paid for one, I think the voice was called 'Susan' but I did not try that one.
First of all...good job XDA for the auto search function when trying to start a new thread! LoL!
I noticed that the voice for Google Nav is so much better and more natural prior to installing the speech synthesis package. I wonder why they didn't use that? I nearly thought it was the 'new' voice with the new Maps update. Got all excited for nothing after downloading the speech pack!
Obviously, it only gives you general directions and doesn't say the names of the streets.
Closest I can find to a new speech pack is svox
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.svox.classic.langpack.eng_usa_fem
But it's marginally better and isn't free (based on the examples I heard on their website).. So I'm holding off for google to implement their own improved version (or until $2 is burning a hole in my pocket one day)
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
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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?
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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.
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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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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
If any of you are using vlingo, voice actions, speaktoit etc.
and are still using the default text to speech voices, then read below.
Install 'svox classic'
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.svox.classic&hl=en
its free, and then the 'Victoria' voice that can be purchased from within the app. (or any other, there are several USA voices).
then go to settings/voice input/text to speech settings/default engine, and set it to svox.
It makes all speech on the phone sound so much more naturalistic and sexy.
(also, the paid version of voice actions definitely seems better on my SG2 than the free one, more accurate and smooth.)
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If any of you are using vlingo, voice actions, speaktoit etc.
and are still using the default text to speech voices, then read below.
Install 'svox classic'
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.svox.classic&hl=en
its free, and then the 'Victoria' voice that can be purchased from within the app. (or any other, there are several USA voices).
then go to settings/voice input/text to speech settings/default engine, and set it to svox.
It makes all speech on the phone sound so much more naturalistic and sexy.
(also, the paid version of voice actions definitely seems better on my SG2 than the free one, more accurate and smooth.)
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Hi very nice suggestion, I have downloaded SVOX and I decided to buy after trying the fre trial a couple of voices ..... very nice !
thanks !
Your welcome,
I found its made the whole voice assistant thing far more natural/enjoyable.
PS. for everyone else, Svox currently has free trials of all the voices for a couple of weeks!
Thanks. I done everything you stated. The us English voices are very smooth.
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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
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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
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.
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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.
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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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