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[Q] Google Now Voice search not talking back

nvm figured it out

stereoprologic said:
nvm figured it out
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What did you do? I keep getting webpage search results

stereoprologic said:
nvm figured it out
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These are the absolute *worst* sorts of forum posts.

GodEater said:
These are the absolute *worst* sorts of forum posts.
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Tell me about it. **** he could at least tell what he did to get it working
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GodEater said:
These are the absolute *worst* sorts of forum posts.
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Can I just add to this? Who is that stupid OP?

I had the same issue.
Settings
Languages & Input
Language
English (United States)
It appears that if you have selected anything else (I had UK) then it doesn't work!

Didn't work
I tried changing the language to english (US) and it still only results in web pages, and does not speak replies.

siehead said:
I tried changing the language to english (US) and it still only results in web pages, and does not speak replies.
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Same here. But it speaks simple stuff like weather

stereoprologic said:
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Mr. Ass, can you at least be helpful, you can cry for help, but not give any?
Update: Oh and people, I have the solution, unlike Mr. Ass, I shall share it, it's a firewall issue, here's the link :victory:

Androider4Life said:
Same here. But it speaks simple stuff like weather
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Mine doesn't speak anything to me, including weather. Doesn't matter if I'm on the mobile network or Wi-Fi.
I tried everything suggested with no luck.
EDIT: I R STUPID, VOL WAS OFF

arehouti respecting
stereoprologic said:
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He just switched language in the Google Voice settings in Google Now.
It works ONLY with English (US).
all other languages give search results as usual google search.

i can confirm that i have english (us) and always speak in my settings. i still never hear a result spoken back to me....what gives?

Baffled...
Anybody get it working yet?

Anybody get it working yet?
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This is what I did to get voice search results to talk back:
1. Open Google Now and go to settings
2. Go to "Privacy and Accounts"
3. Make sure "Search on google.com" is checked
4. Check if your audio volume is up!

ok i have been through both threads my voice is still not working for me. my search on google.com is checked, im not blocked by my wifi at home, i have gone to the settings and tried to Vol+ everything is up. i have made sure that my phone's settings is all checked off with English US. im using the Google speech, my speech output is always on speak. and i still dont get talk back

Possible fix
total_noob_1 said:
ok i have been through both threads my voice is still not working for me. my search on google.com is checked, im not blocked by my wifi at home, i have gone to the settings and tried to Vol+ everything is up. i have made sure that my phone's settings is all checked off with English US. im using the Google speech, my speech output is always on speak. and i still dont get talk back
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This might have already been fixed but I also had this problem with Google now's voice response not working. I somehow got it fixed by:
going into phone settings
select language & input
select text-to-speech output
select Pico TTS as preferred engine
When I got back into my google now app the speech was working.

Can also go to settings
Select accessibility
Select text to speech output
Select Pico TTS
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Why im not having pico tts ?
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stereoprologic said:
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Best OP ever.

Genuine1880 said:
This might have already been fixed but I also had this problem with Google now's voice response not working. I somehow got it fixed by:
going into phone settings
select language & input
select text-to-speech output
select Pico TTS as preferred engine
When I got back into my google now app the speech was working.
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+1. That fixed mine as well. Thanks

Google Now nerfed in 4.1.1.

FYI, many voice actions don't work in 4.1.1. For example, "Text John hello how are you" doesn't write the message out at all.
If you're a heavy user of the feature, beware. You may want to stick to 4.1.

enkoopa said:
FYI, many voice actions don't work in 4.1.1. For example, "Text John hello how are you" doesn't write the message out at all.
If you're a heavy user of the feature, beware. You may want to stick to 4.1.
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Perhaps you are not in the USA? If not, try changing your language settings to English (US).
From what I've heard the feature is not tuned for any other language setting so not everything is available unless you use US English.

enkoopa said:
FYI, many voice actions don't work in 4.1.1. For example, "Text John hello how are you" doesn't write the message out at all.
If you're a heavy user of the feature, beware. You may want to stick to 4.1.
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I have yakju and never had 4.1 before so was kinda thrilled to try the new voice actions out but when I tried none of them works and it only searches the web.
Tried stuff like:
"set the alarm for 6 o'clock"
"remind me in 10 minutes to buy a pizza"
"play carry on my wayward son by kansas"
It recognizes the speach correctly but instead of perfromring the actions it just searches google for the terms.
**** you Apple!

enkoopa said:
FYI, many voice actions don't work in 4.1.1. For example, "Text John hello how are you" doesn't write the message out at all.
If you're a heavy user of the feature, beware. You may want to stick to 4.1.
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Um... It worked for me. Try "Text John Message Hello how are you?".

Snoemannen said:
I have yakju and never had 4.1 before so was kinda thrilled to try the new voice actions out but when I tried none of them works and it only searches the web.
Tried stuff like:
"set the alarm for 6 o'clock"
"remind me in 10 minutes to buy a pizza"
"play carry on my wayward son by kansas"
It recognizes the speach correctly but instead of perfromring the actions it just searches google for the terms.
**** you Apple!
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You just can't speak right apparently. It works flawless for me - I'm on 4.1.1 stock rooted.

I'll play around some more, but I am on takju, US english.
Odd indeed... I do apologize if this turns out to be wrong.

Guys, if it doesn't work for you, its because your phone's language is not set to English (US). Try changing your language settings.
Edit: if your language settings are set to English (US), then I'm not sure

Working fine for me. Stock 4.1.1. I'm in Canada too.

It works for me just like previous 4.1

Yeah set everything to English (US) now and it seems to work now, had the system langueage set to English (UK) before.
Still can't get it to play songs from google music though and I thinks they did that in the demo but I guess I just have to try a little more.
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I'm just stupid and said "play" instead of "listen to"

Google now + asian accents = fail ?

Just wondering before i get my neus will google now work for malaysian or asians in general , as far as i know S voice and siri struggles to undersrand malaysian english ( judging it when i used my friends phone ) and i turns out more of a gimmick than a function , does this flaw comes to google now ?

I'm Malaysian and Google Now works perfectly fine for me

I am Vietnamese and Google Now understands my English as well...

tohno said:
Just wondering before i get my neus will google now work for malaysian or asians in general , as far as i know S voice and siri struggles to undersrand malaysian english ( judging it when i used my friends phone ) and i turns out more of a gimmick than a function , does this flaw comes to google now ?
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I dont have any experience there, but my fiance is Colombian and Google Now does not pick up her voice well at all.

I am from India and Its perfect for me!
google now works perfectly ,can recognise my voice with no issues.. way better than siri.

I think its really depend on the way u pronounced it..
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Some Malaysians have accent that make them mispronounce words, if you pronounce the word correctly, it should work.
Pressed from my Maguro

maliceomalice said:
I think its really depend on the way u pronounced it..
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Spot on, it's not the accent but pronunciations of the words.
Also many people don't realize they don't speak clearly or have speaking problems.

to OP, not to sound insensitive, but how is your incorrect pronunciation of words Google Now's fault?

Not to cause any disturbance here but I work with importation and some asians are EXTREMELY hard to understand, I have to tell them to write me an email... so pay attention to you accent and pronunciation while using Google Now!

barrist said:
to OP, not to sound insensitive, but how is your incorrect pronunciation of words Google Now's fault?
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haven't tried google now yet but using my friend's 4s and using siri ...and man is she useless , she find it hard even identifying simple words from my class's english ace ( he got 92/100 in the test ) and hell it don't work for me either most of the times at least , she got wright every now and then

evil_penguin said:
I am from India and Its perfect for me!
google now works perfectly ,can recognise my voice with no issues.. way better than siri.
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Hey Buddy.
I am also from India and Until yesterday i was using galaxy s2 and i was able to use google now perfectly on that. Today i bought galasy s3. Now i am able to install google now without any problem and it is working too. however, the problem is changing the language. On S2, when i changed the language and tapped ENGLISH, it further gave me many options like English(US), English(UK), English(India) etc. Now on S3, it is stuck on English (US), and my accent is not recognized by English(US). Also when i change the language to some other, it does not come back to English even on selecting it. But my main problem is that only that i am not able to select English(India). Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks

evil_penguin said:
I am from India and Its perfect for me!
google now works perfectly ,can recognise my voice with no issues.. way better than siri.
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Out of curiousity, has the bus stop card ever appeared for you? I use busses pretty often (bangalore, here.) and it's not shown up once :/

Not sure I am American living and Germany and Google now understands 50% of the time. Like I said wake me up at 6am well it understood bake shake sake lake but wake nope. Stupid **** I tell you. Voice recognition still blows major and i stick with typing it. Who needs siri or Google now? I wish it would work but nope. It sucks.
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[Q] Galaxy Note II - Google Voise Search

Hey all, Since the purcahse of my Infnity Tab, I have been waiting to get an android "phone" to replace my old iphone 3gs. So grabbed the Note II yesterday ! Love it ! So far so good, with the exception of one small issue. S voice fine for what it is, but I watched many videos on Google Voice where it will actually "speak back" (a la Siri or "S" voice). I can not for the life of me get google search to speak an answer back to me.
I have check volume for "media" - I can hear S voice so I should be able to hear Google's voice
I have English (US) selected as language of choice.
I have voice response set to "Always"
What might I be missing. I have searched and watched a few videos, I am stumped.
Any tips/help would be greatly appreciated.

Have you tried generic questions like "what's the weather gonna be like today?" and if so, what happens when you ask these questions.
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Razzore said:
Hey all, Since the purcahse of my Infnity Tab, I have been waiting to get an android "phone" to replace my old iphone 3gs. So grabbed the Note II yesterday ! Love it ! So far so good, with the exception of one small issue. S voice fine for what it is, but I watched many videos on Google Voice where it will actually "speak back" (a la Siri or "S" voice). I can not for the life of me get google search to speak an answer back to me.
I have check volume for "media" - I can hear S voice so I should be able to hear Google's voice
I have English (US) selected as language of choice.
I have voice response set to "Always"
What might I be missing. I have searched and watched a few videos, I am stumped.
Any tips/help would be greatly appreciated.
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Where do you live? If you purchased your phone outside of the United States that's why it's not working.
I got my NOTE 2 in Canada and had the same problem. Refer to my post for the answer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2005263

Jamolah said:
Where do you live? If you purchased your phone outside of the United States that's why it's not working.
I got my NOTE 2 in Canada and had the same problem. Refer to my post for the answer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2005263
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Yup, bought it in Canada, where I live.
I will read your post... I hope there is a fix/workaround coming eventually....
That was great !!!
Found the app to fix the issue - "Set Locale" - , thanks Jamolah.

Razzore said:
Yup, bought it in Canada, where I live.
I will read your post... I hope there is a fix/workaround coming eventually....
That was great !!!
Found the app to fix the issue - "Set Locale" - , thanks Jamolah.
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I also hope google fixes this issue so we don't need to use a third party app.
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Razzore said:
Hey all, Since the purcahse of my Infnity Tab, I have been waiting to get an android "phone" to replace my old iphone 3gs. So grabbed the Note II yesterday ! Love it ! So far so good, with the exception of one small issue. S voice fine for what it is, but I watched many videos on Google Voice where it will actually "speak back" (a la Siri or "S" voice). I can not for the life of me get google search to speak an answer back to me.
I have check volume for "media" - I can hear S voice so I should be able to hear Google's voice
I have English (US) selected as language of choice.
I have voice response set to "Always"
What might I be missing. I have searched and watched a few videos, I am stumped.
Any tips/help would be greatly appreciated.
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I'm kinda confuse here... You do know Google Voice and Google Now are two different products, right?
Google Voice: voice.google.com
Google Now: the voice recognition (assistant) feature introduced on JB, like Siri on steroids...
As for the question... Open Google Search, check on Settings\Voice\Speech Output
Peace!

Sergio Espinoza said:
I'm kinda confuse here... You do know Google Voice and Google Now are two different products, right?
Google Voice: voice.google.com
Google Now: the voice recognition (assistant) feature introduced on JB, like Siri on steroids...
As for the question... Open Google Search, check on Settings\Voice\Speech Output
Peace!
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But no matter what if you want Google NOW to to talkback you have to use the local/language app. Because for some reason none US phones don't allow you to change the phone language to English (US).
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[Q] Google now No speech output , no sound

After finally getting the upgrade to JB through kies, Google now works very well except it doesn't have any speech responses like it should. When asking google now the time on my one x, it says the time out loud. The galaxy s3 only displays it.
I've tried
-increasing all of the volumes on the phone
-reboot
-going into google now settings, voice --> Speech output: always speak
-going into google now settings, voice--> Language: English US
But no luck...anyone know how to resolve this?
Thanks

patrik335 said:
After finally getting the upgrade to JB through kies, Google now works very well except it doesn't have any speech responses like it should. When asking google now the time on my one x, it says the time out loud. The galaxy s3 only displays it.
I've tried
-increasing all of the volumes on the phone
-reboot
-going into google now settings, voice --> Speech output: always speak
-going into google now settings, voice--> Language: English US
But no luck...anyone know how to resolve this?
Thanks
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Use MoreLocale2 from market to change location to US english, this worked for me, this is not my idea and am relaying from aother post on subject but i can't remember who posted.
EDIT:Found it BCSC has a thread about this about 25 threads back.
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ragzdincs said:
Use MoreLocale2 from market to change location to US english, this worked for me, this is not my idea and am relaying from aother post on subject but i can't remember who posted.
EDIT:Found it BCSC has a thread about this about 25 threads back.
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I tried searching for other threads to make sure this wasn't a repost but guess I did a poor job. I'll try that now and report back. Thank you!

patrik335 said:
I tried searching for other threads to make sure this wasn't a repost but guess I did a poor job. I'll try that now and report back. Thank you!
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This worked for both my S3 and my One X+
Thank you!