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UK users - Speech to text

OK guys, before I rant at Google, does anyone else's phone do this?
I tap the little mic icon on the keyboard and speak. It gets the first three or four words, but every word after that is just a name from my contacts.
If I switch it to US English it works fine but I have to talk with an American accent to get it to recognise my speech.
I've reported it Here. Please star it if you want Google to resolve the issue.

mike freegan said:
OK guys, before I rant at Google, does anyone else's phone do this?
I tap the little mic icon on the keyboard and speak. It gets the first three or four words, but every word after that is just a name from my contacts.
If I switch it to US English it works fine but I have to talk with an American accent to get it to recognise my speech.
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Just tried the phrase
Testing speech to text to see if it works.
First time major fail .... including throwing a contact name in
Second attempt with tv on mute and it worked perfectly.
Im an ex southerner so dont have much accent

Mine is set to English UK and I don't even know some of the words it thinks I am saying.
Don't even think it is english

you guys just have to learn the correct way to speak English

wilbur-force said:
Just tried the phrase
Testing speech to text to see if it works.
First time major fail .... including throwing a contact name in
Second attempt with tv on mute and it worked perfectly.
Im an ex southerner so dont have much accent
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Try more than a few words as it only seems to glitch badly after the first sentence. Try talking to it like Duarte does and mine just chucks out a list of assorted forenames and surnames.
Annoying as I could talk to the old version like I was having a conversation.
I've reported it Here. Please start it if you want Google to resolve the issue.

Yeah absolutely, after more than a few words it seems to massively prioritise contact entries.
For example, "It's so cool" became "Richard Poole", which although a similar sound at the end (and a compliment for Mr. Poole) didn't seme remotely connected. And every word after were combinations of contact names. I find I have to keep doing short sentences/sentence fragments at a time, which appears to ruin the point of speech-to-text.
Luckily I'm not a big fan of talking at my phone. Hence Siri not being a selling point on the 4S for me.

It's a bit hit or miss but I'm not getting any contact names appearing.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App

I'm finding my galaxy nexus much worse at recognising my voice than my HD2 running gingerbread was. I'd say with that I got about a 95% accuracy rate vs the Galaxy Nexus getting maybe 50% if that.

rashad1 said:
you guys just have to learn the correct way to speak English
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That is the correct way to speak English
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I'm having no issues with the voice recognition at all. No contact names coming up, even after several sentences. I think it's more accurate too (for my voice, anyway), though it still gets it wrong sometimes!
Being able to dictate punctuation is very cool.

I had a little try with the speech to text and it was pretty poor. I hadn't put my contacts in yet but I was on wifi. It got most of the words wrong and lagged quite a lot. I'll test it a bit more extensively once I get my replacement phone

My Galaxy S was far better at recognising my accent.
Can someone else test this, I think it is a bug..
click voice button and say 'text [someones name on your contact list]'
When the screen pops up to enter a text message there is no way of inputting any text.

Ive had no problems with lagging it works ok for me when using for google search for the odd couple of words, but trying to dictate a sentence i've never got 100% accuracy.

I'm from saaarf laaandun no one has a clue what I say most of the time
So talk to text has no chance
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for me some times its excellent and sometimes its useless and i get loads of contacts names that sound nothing like what i have said like some of you.
If there is any background noise at all i usually find it doesnt know what im saying. Some words for me it just wont pick up no matter how many times i try... the one that comes to mind is 'sure' it always comes up with 'so' lol.

Does the speech to text feature require WiFi or a data conection to work? I don't have the Nexus yet.
Didn't want to open a new thread so I asked here.
Sent from my X8 using XDA App

Chris95X8 said:
Does the speech to text feature require WiFi or a data conection to work? I don't have the Nexus yet.
Didn't want to open a new thread so I asked here.
Sent from my X8 using XDA App
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No it doesnt.
Mark.

mskip said:
No it doesnt.
Mark.
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It does on mine?

I'm also finding it works perfectly so far, even a long text message came out without any issues

i just tested this with 3 or 4 rather long sentences. I have a pretty weird accent (mix of Southern, central and northern regional English) and it never once matched anything i said to a contact.
it messed a few words up (understandably), but i'm not experiencing this particular bug.

Is there anything a can do to train Google now voice

In general the voice recognition is good but there are a full words it always gets wrong e.g. it wont get my wifes name right so I can't voice call her. Is there a way of training google now to get this right? I have set the langauge to my country and this helped alot with other words and locations but just doesn't get them all.
Any help here or am I stuck with only the options google think I said?

Seconded
johnw230873 said:
In general the voice recognition is good but there are a full words it always gets wrong e.g. it wont get my wifes name right so I can't voice call her. Is there a way of training google now to get this right? I have set the langauge to my country and this helped alot with other words and locations but just doesn't get them all.
Any help here or am I stuck with only the options google think I said?
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I second this, My wifes name is not recognised and I have tried adding a phonetic name ( tho it then displays this as the contact name :/ ) even downloading the language pack for the country her name is from! nothing! so annoying. this must be a common problem? but theres no posts about it, this makes me think that I'm thick and can't find something that most people think is obvious. tried adding a nick name of 'the wife' which google voice would hear correctly but only do a web search??? fortunately I have an S3 and S-voice will recognise the name but I was hoping to switch.
btw running 4.1 omega rom on S3 and changing my wifes name to Donna via Deed poll...

Same Here
There must not be a solution to this, which is very disappointing. The new voice recognition is cheap for voice calling, especially since my wife is the primary one that I call. :-\

I'm guessing no one found a resolution for this, because I am having the exact same problem.

Save you wife as 'wife', e.g. 'phone wife'
Job done!

johnw230873 said:
In general the voice recognition is good but there are a full words it always gets wrong e.g. it wont get my wifes name right so I can't voice call her. Is there a way of training google now to get this right? I have set the langauge to my country and this helped alot with other words and locations but just doesn't get them all.
Any help here or am I stuck with only the options google think I said?
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Try going to Settings/Language & Input/Voice Search then tick the box for Personalized recognition.

Try saying "launch utter"
The utter app is way more responsive, if you can get over the fugliness...

ebagdirtbike said:
Try going to Settings/Language & Input/Voice Search then tick the box for Personalized recognition.
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Except Personalized Recognition is missing on both Nexus's that I have, and has been known to be missing on other devices too:
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/mobile/rbEGC4jWzaU
I haven't found why yet. CM 10.1 in the case of the Gnexes.

What is this screen asking?

Just got mine and on initial setup, even after selecting English, getting this gibberish. Anyone know what this is asking and appropriate selections?

SWBgHz said:
Just got mine and on initial setup, even after selecting English, getting this gibberish. Anyone know what this is asking and appropriate selections?
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It is asking for additional permissions for data connection, contact and locations for enabling the Sogou input method

Question App transalation

When I opened a supported app, like Line or Whatsapp, the conversations were automatically translated into my language.
Now this features seems vanished, can you suggest me what to check?

thats the Live Translate feature....past that, not sure what to tell ya

Wow. I completely forgot about this feature. I'm bilingual (Japanese/English) but I just tested it out in Line and Google Messages and it works. The translations aren't half bad. Neat!

gpvecchi said:
When I opened a supported app, like Line or Whatsapp, the conversations were automatically translated into my language.
Now this features seems vanished, can you suggest me what to check?
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FWIW, I dismissed the notification a few times because I didn't need it but wanted to have it anyways just in case I ever needed it. Found out that once you dismiss it enough times, the phone believes you no longer want it and it just stops reminding you permanently. I got this fixed by going in to settings, disabling Live Translate and then re-enabling it. This time I never dismissed the pop-up, just ignored it and it now consistently comes up every time in all ups whenever another language is detected.

"Find my device" spontaniously activates

The "Find my device" voice, "I´m Here" spontaniously activates on my Moto G 5G Plus from time to time. I have deactivated "Find my device" in settings, but it stil comes on, quite loudly, even though the phone is set on silent. It can be quite annoying, especially if it does it in the middle of a meeting. Does enyone have an explanation and a solution?

Poul Erik said:
The "Find my device" voice, "I´m Here" spontaniously activates on my Moto G 5G Plus from time to time. I have deactivated "Find my device" in settings, but it stil comes on, quite loudly, even though the phone is set on silent. It can be quite annoying, especially if it does it in the middle of a meeting. Does enyone have an explanation and a solution?
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Is it possible someone else has access to your account and is triggering it?

V0latyle said:
Is it possible someone else has access to your account and is triggering it?
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I don't think so, but I can't rule it out. But the strange thing is, “Find my device" is deactivated. But a change of login is probably a good idea. I presume it is my Google account you are refering to.

Poul Erik said:
I don't think so, but I can't rule it out. But the strange thing is, “Find my device" is deactivated. But a change of login is probably a good idea. I presume it is my Google account you are refering to.
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Yep.
Go to myaccount.google.com/security
Change your password and use a minimum of 8 characters with at least 1 of each: upper case, lower case, number, special character. You can make it easy by substituting characters or numbers for letters in a word: automobile becomes @Ut0mOb!l3
Turn on 2 step verification. Recommend you use your phone number as it's less likely that someone can intercept your texts, vs have access to your email if they already have your password
Next go to myaccount.google.com/device-activity and sign out any devices you don't recognize

Thanks for your detailed reply. By the time I read it, I had been through all the steps. Change of password, signouts and check for unauthorized activity. I couldn't find any, so I guess I'll just have to wait and see - unless others have better ideas.