Is it just me or has S voice improved in the new update. It seems to be faster, still not as good as Google Now, but it seems to me its better than it was in ICS.
zap12341 said:
Is it just me or has S voice improved in the new update. It seems to be faster, still not as good as Google Now, but it seems to me its better than it was in ICS.
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Personally I don't see me using it ever again, google now does everything s voice does, but a lot faster.
PermaFried said:
Personally I don't see me using it ever again, google now does everything s voice does, but a lot faster.
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Can Google Now perform voice dialing features from a Bluetooth headset? I really miss that about my BlackBerry, the voice recognition for calling people from my headset was superb. It absolutely sucked in S-Voice on ICS.
I'll never use S-Voice again, except to ask it stupid questions. :laugh: I've tried to use it to navigate somewhere and it couldn't find a simple street address, so I had to close that, over up the nav app and it found it right away. Hopefully Google Now will do it right.
Tony_YYZ said:
Can Google Now perform voice dialing features from a Bluetooth headset? I really miss that about my BlackBerry, the voice recognition for calling people from my headset was superb. It absolutely sucked in S-Voice on ICS.
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Yes it can. But you have to freeze s voice to get it to work right.
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I prefer Google now over s voice, Google now feels more polished. I found this video while back that goes over some of the cool things Google now can do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHkhp6BwnGo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Google Now is awesome. Its the only app which made me flash all the buggy JB leaks from other carriers...
I like GoogleSVoice
Agreed about the voice dialing. I have disabled S-Voice yet Google Now still tries to do an internet search on everything even if I specifically say to dial a contact.
Is there a way to launch goggle search with the home button (like S Voice)?
i heard that they had made some improvement to s voice with jelly bean but google now is too sweet to switch back from
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anyone tried Vlingo? just downloaded and gave it a test and it's very accurate.
Not tried the updated Google Voice yet as I have a custom ROM, so can't auto update, but Vlingo is definitely better than the Voice Dialler that came with my ROM
Mr_Maz said:
anyone tried Vlingo? just downloaded and gave it a test and it's very accurate.
Not tried the updated Google Voice yet as I have a custom ROM, so can't auto update, but Vlingo is definitely better than the Voice Dialler that came with my ROM
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I used to use it all the time on my blackberry's but never tried it on android, I hear good things about android so I may have to check it out, can it handle dialling people? as Google voice dialler sucks
Lennyuk said:
I used to use it all the time on my blackberry's but never tried it on android, I hear good things about android so I may have to check it out, can it handle dialling people? as Google voice dialler sucks
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yeah seems to do very well so far.
i have a strange accent and picks up eveything I say really well
My buddy has Nuance Dragon Dictation on his iPhone. The other day, in an effort to show off, he turned it on while I was talking (slight invasion of privacy lol). Initially I refused to speak but I saw what he was doing and started talking I was very impressed with how accurate it was. Now I want to be the show off and get this working on my phone, but unfortunately there is no version for Android yet.
Today, I decided to try both the new version of Google Voice Search and Vlingo Voice search. No matter what I do, I cannot get either program to recognize anything I say even though I am speaking perfectly clear English. Is there something special I have to do to get this to work right?
I just tried Vlingo. Works great!!!
My S Voice lady's voice used to sound pretty decent. Now it just sounds like a crappy robotic terrible sounding voice and I can't figure out why it would have changed? I've played with all the setting i could think of?
Any ideas?
i noticed also mines is starting to sound like the google maps navigation lady but for some reason s voice has been alot better at recognizing what i say
mrandyp69 said:
My S Voice lady's voice used to sound pretty decent. Now it just sounds like a crappy robotic terrible sounding voice and I can't figure out why it would have changed? I've played with all the setting i could think of?
Any ideas?
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Are you stock or using a custom touchwiz ROM? Have you tried clearing svoice data and cache?
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Make sure your on English US and not English UK. The UK voice is terrible
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mrandyp69 said:
My S Voice lady's voice used to sound pretty decent. Now it just sounds like a crappy robotic terrible sounding voice and I can't figure out why it would have changed? I've played with all the setting i could think of?
Any ideas?
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I noticed this too. I have also tried pretty much every setting I can find. It sounded good one day, then started sounding crappy and robotic the next . I'm on stock rom not rooted.
have any of you used my guide to replacing s voice with Google now by any chance? I noticed my s voice did this after I made the switch, possibly due to the offline voice typing.
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I have not used the guide to replace S Voice with Google Now. I have also tried clearing the app cache and settings. I am also 100% stock. It sounded good one day, and then the next the voice had changed into a very robotic sounding voice. Very strange. I don't know if they changed their TTS engine or something, but it's certainly worse than it was.
In my settings for everything else, I use Ivona TTS, and it's great. However SVoice doesn't seem to use it.
robertlewisca said:
I have not used the guide to replace S Voice with Google Now. I have also tried clearing the app cache and settings. I am also 100% stock. It sounded good one day, and then the next the voice had changed into a very robotic sounding voice. Very strange. I don't know if they changed their TTS engine or something, but it's certainly worse than it was.
In my settings for everything else, I use Ivona TTS, and it's great. However SVoice doesn't seem to use it.
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Yep, this happened to mine too. I even tried re-flashing the entire ROM via Odin and it still reverts to that robotic lady. What I ended up doing was going to "Applications" and disabling the Samsung TTS engine as well as the Google one. Doing this allows you to use Ivona or SVOX. Not sure why S-Voice doesn't seem to go by the system settings. Anyhow, it would be interesting to see why this has happened! But I actually just disable S-Voice and started using Speaktoit Assistant which has it's own voice (and uses the ones on your phone if you like) and seems to be much better than S-Voice. Just a thought.
Try clearing app data then check.
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Hi Guys,
I have the same problem, further investigation indicates that somehow my Galaxy S3 (rooted) only uses Samsung TTS engine which sounds robotic, even I choose Google TTS in the language and input settings as TTS output. I had to disable samsung TTS to use google TTS. hope this helps
I had some fun playing with S Voice when I first got my phone, but it quickly got frustrating. I use my Bluetooth earpiece a lot (DH calls it my Borg Implant...) and I'm used to using voice control on my Vibrant. I'm finding that when I try to do the same on the S3, that S Voice gets it wrong way more often than right. I'll tell it to call my Mom by name, it'll call my Mother In Law. Or random numbers. I had to change Mom's name in my contact list to "Mom." I also can't get it to work with playing music in Google Music.
I'd prefer Google search with my bluetooth but I don't know how to make that happen. I've tried going in to the apps and disabling S Voice, and that did indeed not cause it to come up when I touch the button on my bluetooth, but nothing happened.
Is there a way to cause Google Search to be the default again when I want to search for something, play a song, compose a text, or call someone?
Thanks for any advice.
I would love to know this as well. If there's a way to override S Voice with Google voice search, I will do it in a heartbeat. Anyone?
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Good Luck.
puertoricanshan said:
I would love to know this as well. If there's a way to override S Voice with Google voice search, I will do it in a heartbeat. Anyone?
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Get titanium backup and "freeze" S-voice is a solution I would suggest. As well as clearing the data and cache of S-voice in app manager under system settings because it should clear the S-voice being default. Please thank me if I have helped you. Take care
Try this. Double tap Home to open Svoice. Press menu, then settings and disable everything!
Next go to Settings - Language and Input
Press Voice Recognizer and you should be able to choose Google.
Then press Voice Search to configure.
If you can't choose Google, try switching to the Swype keyboard, then try again.
I hope this helps!
I got this partially, enough to be getting on with. I went into my app manager and disabled S Voice. Now when I touch my bluetooth, it gives me Google's voice dialer.
I wouldn't mind S Voice so much if it actually worked.
iSchadenfreude said:
Get titanium backup and "freeze" S-voice is a solution I would suggest. As well as clearing the data and cache of S-voice in app manager under system settings because it should clear the S-voice being default. Please thank me if I have helped you. Take care
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Thanks for the suggestion! What I ended up doing (because I'm not rooted) is I disabled S-Voice, then installed an app called Home2 Shortcut (can't post link to Play Store - sorry!). That allowed me to choose the app I want to launch on double-tap of the home button. Works flawlessly!!
Hey does s voice work on 4g/3g? because i tried it and it said network error and then i try with wifi and it works fine!
Don't know if I changed some settings by accident, but the Google Now voice search is not working. After I speak into the mic, , the can't recognize what I said but rather keeps runingin circles trying to understand me. Same happens in the Google navigation voice search. Used to be working fine in both apps.
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x2h said:
Don't know if I changed some settings by accident, but the Google Now voice search is not working. After I speak into the mic, , the can't recognize what I said but rather keeps runingin circles trying to understand me. Same happens in the Google navigation voice search. Used to be working fine in both apps.
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I get this some times while driving but never when I'm not driving.
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