Hello,
I'm posting about an issue I have with google maps. This isn't just a google maps issue but happens mostly on google maps when doing voice navigation.
Here is the issue: I go to settings and select Ivona Text-To-Speech as my default TTS engine. I select British English as my language and I choose a nice female British voice. This all seems fine. I open up Google Maps and start navigation and then I get a nice British male voice. Is there no way to switch it to a female voice even though the voice is specified in the settings under my default TTS?
I can force this to work via morelocale2 but right in the middle of navigating it switches to the male voice and then back. Also sometimes it just does the male voice and I have to waste 45 minutes of my time screwing around to get it to work properly with the correct voice.
Maybe someone needs to make a custom menu that will allow us to choose a voice? I mean someone might want to use a default voice for their system as say DARTH VADER then, have a female or male british or US voice for navigation.
Does anyone have a fix for this, it's very frusturating.
Thanks
Wow 45 minutes changing a voice setting. You must really hate the Google voice sound huh. Lol
Never tried it so not sure how it'll be done. But that's probably why your having issues with it, because it doesn't like the audio to be changed!
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Bajanman said:
Wow 45 minutes changing a voice setting. You must really hate the Google voice sound huh. Lol
Never tried it so not sure how it'll be done. But that's probably why your having issues with it, because it doesn't like the audio to be changed!
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Pico TTS is horrible for everything, Ivona TTS is much better. This is a flaw in android, and a major one I might add.
marcusah123 said:
Pico TTS is horrible for everything, Ivona TTS is much better. This is a flaw in android, and a major one I might add.
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Lol
I'll test out the other tts app. See how it is.
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Bajanman said:
Lol
I'll test out the other tts app. See how it is.
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I've tried many of them and Ivona is the best but they all have the same issue. its an android issue.
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Does anyone else find that Google Now does not always engage when you say "Google" to activate it?
For me it only responds about once or twice. It works again after a reboot for another once or twice.
Anyone have a fix foe that?
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It does this to me sometimes too I just give my phone a reboot and it works again, Hopefully it will get better once the source is released.
For me it keeps FCing. I've tried reinstalling it without luck. Has anyone been having this problem running AOKP build 40?
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I have not seen this happen on my gnex. So far Google now has been spot on. It has been a little laggy at times, but no FCs or unresponsive.
Would there be any benefit in reflashing JB. Did something go wrong in the install?
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Google Now Voice search
My Google Now doesn't have any working voice-back. When I do a voice search, it only shows a google search result.
MikkelK said:
My Google Now doesn't have any working voice-back. When I do a voice search, it only shows a google search result.
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Google Voice Search will not speak back with every search results. It will with some searches and request such as weather, definitions, directions, celebrity profile, etc. If you have attempted those and still have no voice response, you may need to download the offline speech recognition.
Go to Settings > Language & input > Speech > Voice Search > Download offline speech recognition. Select the language of your choice and enjoy.
Hope this helps!
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Google Voice Search will not speak back with every search results. It will with some searches and request such as weather, definitions, directions, celebrity profile, etc. If you have attempted those and still have no voice response, you may need to download the offline speech recognition.
Go to Settings > Language & input > Speech > Voice Search > Download offline speech recognition. Select the language of your choice and enjoy.
Hope this helps!
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I'm having the same problem. I tried downloading the offline speech recognition but it didn't help.
All that google now does for me is display the google search results, but it never provides me with any additional feedback even with the simplest searches, like: "is it going to rain tomorrow" or "who is the ceo of google?".
Anyone has any idea what might be the problem?
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Can it be related to, that I'm running Yakjuxw, and not Yakju?
Today, Google Search was updated, bringing additional cards to Google Now. My voice searches are the same, though.
Problem persists.
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
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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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
Hello everybody,
i usually use a lot Google Maps and i've always been annoyed by this thing: i've installed IVONA Text-to-Speech HQ (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ivona.tts) (which i suggest because it's great) as my default TTS Engine, but Google Voice keeps switching between Ivona and his internal TTS (the Google one, i think).
So, 10 phrases are said by IVONA, 2 or 3 by Google, and so on for all the trip.
I hate it, mostly because the Google TTS can't spell (italian) road names and gives only vague informations.
I've even tried to freeze Pico-TTS with Titanium, but it doesn't change a thing.
Any suggestions?
sberla54 said:
Hello everybody,
i usually use a lot Google Maps and i've always been annoyed by this thing: i've installed IVONA Text-to-Speech HQ (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ivona.tts) (which i suggest because it's great) as my default TTS Engine, but Google Voice keeps switching between Ivona and his internal TTS (the Google one, i think).
So, 10 phrases are said by IVONA, 2 or 3 by Google, and so on for all the trip.
I hate it, mostly because the Google TTS can't spell (italian) road names and gives only vague informations.
I've even tried to freeze Pico-TTS with Titanium, but it doesn't change a thing.
Any suggestions?
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Remove pico-TTS
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But is it Pico-TTS the voice that Map's using? Because i've freezed it with TB and nothing changed...
sberla54 said:
But is it Pico-TTS the voice that Map's using? Because i've freezed it with TB and nothing changed...
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BUMP!
Noone else has any idea?