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
serendipityguy said:
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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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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?
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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
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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.
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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.)
CarsnGadgets said:
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
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
I know neither are perfect but when I give a local phone command like play music or a certain song S- Voice usually does it automatically. Google Now just always wants to search the web or make me scroll to a (tiny) button and choose what I want to do. Any tips to getting Google Now to "get a little smarter"?
I don't get Google Now yet. I mean I have it, I just don't "get it". The cards kinda put me off, so I haven't taken the time to explore what it really does for me.
I liked being able to press the search button (which my S3 doesn't have ) and Google Voice Search would pop up and I'd tell her (yeah, her) to do something and she would do it (usually).
Google Now seems a bit more complicated.
I've been using Google Now for a while now and I've found it to be very convenient. I love the fact that it will remind me when my favorite football (soccer) team plays a day before on the days I forget. It's pretty awesome IMO how it gives me an ETA for my commute to and from work without having to look up anything. It also does that for any place I look up (Store, Company, etc) with a shortcut to navigate. I was skeptical at first but it has found it's way to integrate into my everyday life.
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I looked into it a little bit and I've come to the conclusion I don't lead an interesting enough life for Google Now to be useful. I (more often than not) know where stuff is around me, I have apps that tell me the weather and my teams' scores, and public transit is pretty consistent for me.
So there you go.
I can't really get the hang of either of them. Can either of them place phone calls or open apps?
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There both agreviting. I mean try telling it to send a text message, damn thing just twist your words. It's making me think my spoken English was recently learnt through rosettastone. I end up arguing with it....
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I use Voice Search (not Google Now) because the cards put me off.
Usually I'm looking to do something specific and I don't need a bunch of cards coming up.
I found that S-voice was less accurate and slower than Voice search for everything. VS will make calls, search, search phone, send texts...etc.
I hated on S-voice that it had to repeat back what it was doing....make sure that's what I wanted and then do it....the process took longer than VS by 3X.
bud951 said:
I know neither are perfect but when I give a local phone command like play music or a certain song S- Voice usually does it automatically. Google Now just always wants to search the web or make me scroll to a (tiny) button and choose what I want to do. Any tips to getting Google Now to "get a little smarter"?
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Ditto here. I did find personalized recognition under settings so you can try that to see if it helps, and IIRC, you can choose the apps that it has access to.
I pretty much only use the (new offline) Google Voice search/commands, too, and ignore the Google Now cards, because they're not useful often enough in NYC. Weather and extreme weather alert cards are nice, but the subway and commute stuff doesn't really help me, and I don't give a sh1t about the new movie & sports cards.
Maybe more user-relevant cards from apps will show up in the future, though.
(Still, S-Voice sucks.)
The fact that google now doesnt have full control over the apps yet is the kicker. I think it will be able to do this and then it will be the king. But for asking google search type things its better than S voice, but S voice can control the apps....combine the abilities of the 2 with the speed of Google Now and it will be great.
wiz4769 said:
The fact that google now doesnt have full control over the apps yet is the kicker. I think it will be able to do this and then it will be the king. But for asking google search type things its better than S voice, but S voice can control the apps....combine the abilities of the 2 with the speed of Google Now and it will be great.
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Google voice is the best of both worlds...it has app control and it's fast on voice searching.
It's S-Voice without the annoying slowness and GNow without the stupid cards popping up.
wiz4769 said:
The fact that google now doesnt have full control over the apps yet is the kicker. I think it will be able to do this and then it will be the king. But for asking google search type things its better than S voice, but S voice can control the apps....combine the abilities of the 2 with the speed of Google Now and it will be great.
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Isn't part the problem that Google Now uses DIFFERENT commands to do things? (I just updated to the v7 version and I can set a time with the same prhasing as S Voice, but it actually sets an alarm for 10 minutes later vs S-Voice's bringing up the timer part of the clock.)
In S Voice you would say, "set a timer for ten minutes" and it brings up the stop watch and asks you to start it. (mine usually times out before I can say 'start')
In Google Now you say, 'set a reminder for ten minutes ' and it does set the alarm for the time.
What I LOVE is that Google Now can look at my calendar and where my next appt is and tell me (in advance) how long it's going to take to get there, reminding me to leave. This of course requires that you put the information into the location portion of your appts.
There's a set of 2 vids on Youtube with Google Now's 67 commands and search types.
http://youtu.be/fHkhp6BwnGo and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ePUYp6HPU&feature=share&list=ULh8ePUYp6HPU
Lol man! i think you are alone in this one!! google now is so much better to anything else!! it really knows you!!
kjpedro said:
Lol man! i think you are alone in this one!! google now is so much better to anything else!! it really knows you!!
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+1 Google Now hands down
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Can someone explain me how Gnow works and what it can do never used it
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I never use neither of them.
I hate Google Now throwing all the sports thingy wasting my battery, memory, and data.. Though, S-voice don't spend any data, I feel like it's wasting battery and memory.
I'll use G-Now/S-Voice when phone can stay up for 3days with heavy usage
I am getting very tired of Google Now's limited usability and have really started liking S Voice lately.
Google mostly just gives you a web search, S Voice actually gives you the answer right off the bat. For example I just searched for "How many days between Dec 17 and Jan 11." Google Now searched the web, S Voice queried Wolfram Alpha and gave me the number of days. Just like that.
Setting the timer works with S Voice; Google Now just makes an alarm. A note-to-self command creates an S Note with S Voice; Google Now sends an email. Creating a task works great with S Voice; Google Now instead makes a whole day event.
In all, Google Now is not as polished. Since it is a "one size fits all" it cannot work with your phone's features since it needs to be compatible with all Android devices. S Voice on the other hand seems much better integrated and I really like the conversation interface they use.
To Google Now's favor it is faster, but that is it's only strength. Making S Voice faster is probably easier for Samsung compared to making Google Now better for Google.
What do you guys think?
Well coming from Siri, I don't like either of them. They always take my voice in their way. But yeah, in short GNow sucks in comparison with S-Voice. However S-Voice is not great itself, so GNow is ....
I find S-voice very Slow.When I say something it takes up to 1 min to respond
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