Develop Bugs

Is there No Voice Dialing on the Desire?

Anyone know how to voice dial on the desire, doesn't seem to be any button combination that allows voice dialing ?
Surely they have not missed this out ?
If they have missed it out any good apps like MSVC but on the android platform ?
Thanks

This is a good find! On the G1 you hold the call button, but I don't know how it works with no dedicated call button.

How about this?
http://choicedialer.com/
http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.resounding.choicedialer.pro/
$4, not bad if you really like it.
There is free version though:
http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.resounding.choicedialer.free/

Or this:
http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid/17872-voice-dialing.html#post135403

Or this:
http://androidforums.com/motorola-dr...tml#post135403
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Did see this but does not work on the desire. The first link is close but it appears there is no way to voice dial with a bluetooth headset. Really dont know why this has been missed out of any release as it a well used feature.
Thanks for the info anyway, i am sure eventually it will be included, maybe in another rom update.

Does it work if you press and hold the on-screen send key in the dialer app?
This thread on Android forums suggests the function was available on earlier HTC phones:
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f10/voice-dialing-878/

bcmobile said:
Does it work if you press and hold the on-screen send key in the dialer app?
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No that doesn't do anything. I've just tried the free version of ChoiceDialer and so far it seems very good. I am in a very quiet environment so I want to test it out in noisier areas before I decide whether to get the paid version.

Damn! That's disappointing! It's one of those features I never even bother to look for. These days I assume all phones would have this function.
Good to see there is an app that can do voicedialing. WOuld be interedted in hearing your thoughts after a couple of days use.

Get "Choice Dialer" from the Market. Great program, IMO.

Paid for the full version of Choice Dialler. Love it! I can say 'Play music from ..' and name one of my playlists or albums and it starts playing it. For me so far it worksabout 70 to 80% of the time and I don't have to use a US accent even though the developer confirmed to me it is designed for US voice recognition.
One bug for me though and that is I have to disable the ability to find individual song tracks. It says I have too many but at the moment I have only installed 367! The developer is trying to find the problem but it would be helpful to know if anyone else with the paid version has a similar problem. (Searching for music isn't available on the free version.)

if you have the desire you can go to the voice search app and say "dial so and so _________ insert name" that should work for the voice dial it is already preinstalled so you don't need to pay anything hope this helps you guys

New voice search does it. You have to select us accent in the settings tho. Hold search button, then say call name mobile/home. Done. Works with my eastern European accent LOL
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But there is no way to do ir over BT

Just posting my general frustration with this.
Just got a HTC desire. My ancient Ericsson would do this and not a so called smart phone. Voice dial via Bluetooth is essential for in car calls.

LostInSwiss said:
Just got a HTC desire. My ancient Ericsson would do this and not a so called smart phone. Voice dial via Bluetooth is essential for in car calls.
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I couldn't agree more. This is a high end device and this feature ought to be included and be 100% reliable. What were they thinking? Apple made the same mistake with the first iPhone, you'd think Google would have learnt from it. It's a pathetic omission.

tryingtohelp said:
if you have the desire you can go to the voice search app and say "dial so and so _________ insert name" that should work for the voice dial it is already preinstalled so you don't need to pay anything hope this helps you guys
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thats what i thought was the idea.
shame it doesnt work over bluetooth - just seems to call the last person called instead

When I use the voice search, all it does is bring up a google web browser. How can I change it to call people or play music?

still missing voicedial over bluetooth as I had on my old SonyEricsson with me creating database of sound for names
is there an app with such a funcionality?

alanbyrne said:
When I use the voice search, all it does is bring up a google web browser. How can I change it to call people or play music?
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open the voice search app up and turn off google web search and enable contacts etc.

open the voice search app up and turn off google web search and enable contacts etc.
Sorry but i cant find any settings to disable google and enable contacks ...........any help?

Anyone experience with Google Voice Apps?

I'm looking into buying a Google Voice App. Did a few searches, but the reviews are mostly outdated and some of the cons are undoubtedly fixed.
Wondering if anyone recently done the same search and what conclusion you came to?

leesiulung said:
I'm looking into buying a Google Voice App. Did a few searches, but the reviews are mostly outdated and some of the cons are undoubtedly fixed.
Wondering if anyone recently done the same search and what conclusion you came to?
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If you mean the program that records calls, I had an issue one time on my HD7. I used the app on an Android and it recorded a call and kept showing the icon on the lockscreen of my HD7 when I started using it. What it did was mix up the voice message origin between the Google app and the built-in app. I could never get the icon to go away until I made a new voice message to my HD7 using the built-in app. Then I was able to delete the message and make the icon disappear.
I stopped using Google Voice because of that.

I've been using GoVoice, and its worked pretty good so far. Its a far cry from the official Google Voice app I had on android, so I'm hoping socket support comes soon, and hoping Google will make an official app like they did with the iPhone.

I come from using a Nexus One so the switch has been painful to say the least. I do like GoVoice somewhat. Hate the fact that you have to sign up for a third party service to get push notifications. Otherwise it's an ok app.

My pick is FreeTalk. I was using GoVoice before, but I found that FreeTalk offers a more user friendly interface. I like the fact that when I start up FreeTalk, you can immediately choose to either look at your messages or immediately swipe to the phone keypad hub screen to make a call. This is especially useful to me, as I make a lot of international calls through Google Voice. Lastly, for those who might need this feature, there is a non-English translation option that will translate your SMS and text voicemails to another language. I am not sure if this is built-in into the Android version, and I don't think I saw it in GoVoice either.

Help with Voice for GNEX 4.1

I can't seem to find an answer for this, but I got my 4.1 OTA update a few days ago for my GSM Galaxy Nexus. The last two days anytime I look at a web page or go to Facebook for example and touch the screen,my phone reads back everything I touch. I'm trying to find a way to disable the voice so I can view my pages without having a voice read to me what is on the page. Does any one have any ideas? Thanks again.

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I can't seem to find an answer for this, but I got my 4.1 OTA update a few days ago for my GSM Galaxy Nexus. The last two days anytime I look at a web page or go to Facebook for example and touch the screen,my phone reads back everything I touch. I'm trying to find a way to disable the voice so I can view my pages without having a voice read to me what is on the page. Does any one have any ideas? Thanks again.
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Check that Talk Back is off under Settings/accessibility

Maris_ said:
Check that Talk Back is off under Settings/accessibility
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Yes Talk back is off
UPDATE:
I think I found the problem. Under settings/accessibility, I had the Enhance Web Accessibility option selected as ALLOWED. I switched it to NOT ALLOWED and so far so good.

[Q] Costom ROM with decent Universal Search...

Can anyone tell me if there's a custom rom or an app that allows you to search texts and emails (gmail) from the search bar?
I was told that the Nexus did this (ie search texts and mail as part of the universal search) but when I got it and looked in the settings for Google Now, there was no mention of including emails or texts in any searches

Anyone, please?

WOW, all you guys using custom ROMS and no one tried to search for anything using universal search?

Well, as I've understood it.
Apple have a patent for including search his on mail and local media/files, and I believe Google have removed that functionality from the OS. Or was this the galaxy SIII only?
/Edit: It was for the SIII, I also tried to search locally, and I got hits from my phone book on searches. It works, but you don't hit the search button (write the word and results show with hits locally without pressing the search button).
Swype'ed on my CM10 Galaxy Nexus

Is Google Now working right on my SGS 3?

From what I read, Now is supposed to do thing from voice. My understanding is it does it, but for me it does not actually comnplete it. I need to then click something for it to finish.
For example: "Text <a contact> This is a test", will put the message "This is a test" there and show the contact, but I must press the send. Same for email.
I suspect what I"ll here is the above is normal.
Another thing, I ask for a stock quote, and it gives it to me in Indian Rupies. Although if I ask "What is the stock price of <company> USA, it give it to me in dollars. I don't know why it defaults to India.
And I read somewhere that I could launch apps with Now by saying "Launch <app>". but that doesn't work, it just does a web search on the words "launch app"
I really would like to see the functionality that the OLD Microsoft Voice Command provided. Could launch apps, lplay music that is on the phone by genre, artist, or song (not have it just search online for it), and many more handy things. The voice dial in MVC worked very good, although the Google voice dialing is improving.

SGS3 has Google now?
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For the contacts, they have to be stored on your phone and not from sync like facebook, etc... and I thought they had disabled launching apps with it because of a security issue.

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SGS3 has Google now?
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Not by default. But there are custom ROMS that have it (my ROM listed in sig); and there is a mod for replacing S with it (I'm not sure, but may require Root access.)

yeah mine isnt working either. i dont know why. it was working this morning and now it keeps loading.