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Google Voice Actions - Your Experiences

How you all finding this?
It can dictate a text no problem, but doesn't seem to pick up the TO: field for me.
So if I say "send text to bob how are you" it will fill in "2 bob how are you" in the message field and leave the TO field empty. how are you getting on? It's still pretty cool. And you can say things like "call 08665242424" and it gets that perfect. Although when I say "call Joe" it just won't find the appropriate entry on my SIM card.

hey,
So far with the actions, i had a little bit of troubling getting it to call my contacts e.g. "call Paul C" an it suggests everyone else in my list with the surname C except "Paul C" also the text thing doesnt seem to work at all, but i have found it's very good at web searching and also when you have already entered the texting menu, i think once it gets the support for different countries it will be really good and fun to use.
At the minute its more of a novelty, but it could become very very useful.

We had a lot of fun earlier as what I said and what the phone thought I said was so different!
e.g.
Send a text to Teresa to say hello
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Send a text recycle au
I did manage to get the thing to give me directions to Skegness (although I was trying to call somebody at the time).
Maybe I need to lay on an american accent and try again

But... But... But... It worked so well in the little video!

Very hit and miss for me. If it works, it works spot on 100% and great. If it fails, it fails epically.

Same here. If it works, it works, if not, well I just hope I'm not showing it off to a friend as it can make an ass of itself.
The text action? Doesn't work for me at all. Neither does setting an alarm. Getting directions is perhaps the most reliable voice action of all. Calling people is hit and miss. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just doesn't complete the action. I'll say, "Call Claire XYZ Mobile", and it displays a list of 'did you mean?' options. The top one is usually right, but when I click it it Googles it as a search term!

The Alarm is still in development

the fact it requires a data connection means its learning as it goes. Recording 10000s of new words per day and linking them based by region. In time it should be able to learn words with accents etc so well that its hard to fool.
at the moment it is certainly more novelty than technological wow. but.. I think it will get there. I wish you could "teach it" by sampling your address book. I mean you click on a contacts name and then say it 5 times and the google learns how this name is pronounced in your region. then it recognizes it next time. I think they'll get there. this is a good start.

If it learns as it goes, then all those who set theory phone to US English may not be helping out develop the software for their own language if each voice request is sent out with a language tag from the phone.
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How do I know what version of "voice search" I have?
I used the QR code from the google blog and and doesn't recognize some of them.
For example, it will recognize "note to self I am cool" but it will ask to do a search instead of noting to self.

It picks up very few words I say correctly. Usually "call" it always gets correct. Brilliant concept but not very practical for the masses yet.
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I've found this terrible so far, 0% success rate! Even speaking in most clearest English with no background noise.
Maybe you have more success with an American accent??

But the odd thing is that the previous "search by voice" and technologies such as Translate both recognise voice really really well.

As with most of you, no success at all.. another interesting thing is set it to US English and hold it up to your speakers and play the guy from the Youtube video talking and it fails to get correct anything he says as well so I would like to know how they got 100% success rate in the video.

I have had limited success with it set to US english, one big problem is the "listen to" command, it insists that I need to install a music player, I have spotify installed (which is on the approved list) but voice action does not appear to recognise that it is there.

thejinx0r said:
How do I know what version of "voice search" I have?
I used the QR code from the google blog and and doesn't recognize some of them.
For example, it will recognize "note to self I am cool" but it will ask to do a search instead of noting to self.
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It is looking for the nearest psychiatrist, as it has deduced you are in urgent need thereof

Like the previous voice to text, it mainly accepts US english inflection, for the moment being.
However in my fake mafioso-US-english accent I could manage to type some emails, but I couldn't, for the hell of it, make it recognize the 'to' field most of the times. I think you really have to speak it all together "send email (no pause) to xyz (pause) how are you ?"

Too many "SERVER PROBLEM" .... not good.

OK, I've figured it out. It works and works just as accurate as in the Google vid. You just have to speak at your normal pace and the phone no more than around 6 inches away.
I can use US and UK accents to get it working. I've moved around enough to know them well.
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I have tried it for directions, navigation, voice dialing good.text message no go on generic htc sense 2.2.
Northern irish accent.
Just saying one word searches for pizza, thai, pubs god tho.bruins up google search entries by location.plus point
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[Q] Problem with Voice Actions/Vlingo???

I am quite frustrated, and wondering if there is a problem with my phone, or if I could have made some sort of unintentional setting change for my SGS2. I have had the phone for 2 weeks with no problems, but all of a sudden today my Google Voice Actions and Vlingo will not work. From my best assessment, it is not hearing my voice or not hearing it well enough to make anything out. Whenever I speak something into the phone -- and I have done this on this phone and my HD2 so I'm not new to speaking my requests -- it will sometimes immediately come back and say "No Matches Found". Once in a while it will open a browser window, and try to searc for 1 or two or three letter gibberish words: i.e. "bh", or "fns", or "g". It certainly does NOT recognize ANYTHING it used to! Just for fun, I downloaded JEANNIE, which seems to be another voice-action-type program. That also does not work. The microphone icon doesn't seem to light up much (which further makes me think it cannot "hear" me, and the program responds with, "pardon?" Phone calls I make are ok -- people can hear me -- just not these programs!! IS there a setting that I could have changed that prevents the programs from hearing my voice?? BTW, I did try to go to the Voice Actions app in MANAGE PROGRAMS and erased data, but that didn't help.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, otherwise I'll take it back to the store and see if they'll exchange it or know what's going on!
Thank you all for your reading this and for your help!
Wingmann

Did you reboot or at least kill and restart the app?

uninstall it and then reintall it i just tested mines and i hav no issuses but ive only had my sinse thursday plus i rooted mines and removed most of the carrier apps

dude vlingo sucks man, the galaxy version is so much better

Does anyone know how, when in car mode, to get VLingo to navigate to a contact (say Home, for example)? You would think this would be a basic function for a hands-free program in car mode, but I can't figure it out. Everytime I say "Navigate to Home", it tries to take me to some Home bakery or something like that. Can I even navigate to an address I give it with this thing?
I know it's been overhyped, but Siri is the one thing from that fruit phone I wish this phone had. Don't get me wrong. I was so close to getting the "other" phone, but opted for the Samsung instead. And after playing around with the iphone, I'm glad I did. But Vlingo seriously makes me want to punch it in the screen sometimes.

Well, I figured out how to get Vlingo to go home. Go to Vlingo->Settings->Voice talk Settings->Home address and type in your home address. Now you can say "Navigate to Home".
But after using it more, I see more problems with it. Vlingo can navigate to restaurants, but not contacts. It can call contacts, but not restaurants. WTF Vlingo?!? Can we get all of the above please in the near future?

"Okay google, Navigate home" is no longer working for me.

I use this feature all the time but after i clean wiped my phone now it either pulls up 3 businesses with home in the name or it will pull up 2 contacts that happen to have home in the title. Not sure why it isn't working right. Telling it to navigate to work still works correctly.
I already have my home set in the google app and in google maps.

smac7 said:
I use this feature all the time but after i clean wiped my phone now it either pulls up 3 businesses with home in the name or it will pull up 2 contacts that happen to have home in the title. Not sure why it isn't working right. Telling it to navigate to work still works correctly.
I already have my home set in the google app and in google maps.
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For myself, I say "OK Google, how do I get to home". Tells me how long it will currently take and I just need to tap navigate icon.
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Here's what i found...
I have read about this problem so many places and seen so many solutions - none of which worked for me.
Today - I finally found out where my "work" and "home" were stuck and preventing navigate to... from working for these locations. Short form - they were stuck in my Google+ account, but NOT in the places category. It was my contact settings for home and work. They were set to blank in my Google plus profile. It didn't matter that I had them set in my phone. It didn't matter that I had them set in Google Maps (both on Android and on the web). Caches - meaningless. In the end, it came down to the fact that those values were blank in my Google+ account - THAT is what stopped the service from working.
Thank me if I helped.
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Mikkey81 said:
Here's what i found...
I have read about this problem so many places and seen so many solutions - none of which worked for me.
Today - I finally found out where my "work" and "home" were stuck and preventing navigate to... from working for these locations. Short form - they were stuck in my Google+ account, but NOT in the places category. It was my contact settings for home and work. They were set to blank in my Google plus profile. It didn't matter that I had them set in my phone. It didn't matter that I had them set in Google Maps (both on Android and on the web). Caches - meaningless. In the end, it came down to the fact that those values were blank in my Google+ account - THAT is what stopped the service from working.
Thank me if I helped.
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i can't even find contact settings on g+

smac7 said:
i can't even find contact settings on g+
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Did you try my recommendation? I never had to do anything with contact settings on Google+.
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EeZeEpEe said:
Did you try my recommendation? I never had to do anything with contact settings on Google+.
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thanks! i tried you're recommendation and now it also works when I say "navigate home". I was stalling on trying it at first cause my wife is sleeping next right next to me and i didn't want to wake her. I went for the whisper and it worked lol.

smac7 said:
thanks! i tried you're recommendation and now it also works when I say "navigate home". I was stalling on trying it at first cause my wife is sleeping next right next to me and i didn't want to wake her. I went for the whisper and it worked lol.
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? Yeah I think I used to try that too and noticed it didn't work one time. Then I realized in a Google commercial they would say "How do I get to..." and gave that a try instead. So I just use that most of the time.
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Go to google plus on your browser Click on your profile. (This is from my phone, mind you) click on the info button on the rightside (the circle lettered "i").
Your location should be stored there (make sure its private). Next turn off your accounts sync on your phone and then back on. Accounts/Google turn off on everything and then back on.

Installing a larger package of google apps fixed the navigation problem for me. It seems in the nano or smaller package some essentiell voice things are missing.

google now no longer snowing events from Gmail?

First off not sure if this is posted in correct section, mods please feel free to move if not. More of a general Android/8.0 question.
Overall I'm not a huge fan of how the Google launcher has evolved. Some of the most useful features in the past for me have been the way Google Launcher almost sources of travel assistant. If a Flight confirmation was in my email, on my desktop it would show flight arrival times Etc. Similarly it would do the same for hotel reservations and even my travel companions plans. However, I haven't seen my new pixel 2 phone do this.
And yes, im sure I have checked all the right buttons in the play launcher, have given it access to Gmail, etc. Have told it I want it to display these things ( ideally on my desktop! With the Google now widget), although it just hasn't been doing so.
Again, I'm sure this is more of a software issue than hardware, although was wondering if anyone else has been having similar frustrations, or has any solutions

Cowbell_Guy said:
First off not sure if this is posted in correct section, mods please feel free to move if not. More of a general Android/8.0 question.
Overall I'm not a huge fan of how the Google launcher has evolved. Some of the most useful features in the past for me have been the way Google Launcher almost sources of travel assistant. If a Flight confirmation was in my email, on my desktop it would show flight arrival times Etc. Similarly it would do the same for hotel reservations and even my travel companions plans. However, I haven't seen my new pixel 2 phone do this.
And yes, im sure I have checked all the right buttons in the play launcher, have given it access to Gmail, etc. Have told it I want it to display these things ( ideally on my desktop! With the Google now widget), although it just hasn't been doing so.
Again, I'm sure this is more of a software issue than hardware, although was wondering if anyone else has been having similar frustrations, or has any solutions
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Same thing is happening to me. Nothing is showing up.

Google Now is slowly getting ruined. Only think that ever show now for me is packages, calendar, events, recipes, and time to work/home. They might as well deprecate it at this point and shut down the Newstand app as that's basically what Google Now is....now. Almost every story in Google now is the same thing in my Newstand.

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Google Now is slowly getting ruined. Only think that ever show now for me is packages, calendar, events, recipes, and time to work/home. They might as well deprecate it at this point and shut down the Newstand app as that's basically what Google Now is....now. Almost every story in Google now is the same thing in my Newstand.
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It used to be fantastic. I travel a ton and it would always keep track of all my flights or they were on time delays etcetera. Almost like a built-in travel assistant. All I needed was the flight information in my email that was sent to me at the time I book the flight. But for some reason I'm having trouble getting that.
The only work around I found so far is to click on the envelope looking icon at the top that shows upcoming events. This has given me better luck at showing the great stuff I used to see.

Same boat. It used to track my packages (through gmail).
It hasn't done that in a while though.

Yeah, same as above. I'm slowly moving things over to Outlook.

Might need to go with Google Trips to reliably get automatic importing of flight info from Gmail. I dislike how after opening up the Feed by swiping to left from home screen, I now have to click on that stupid icon on the upper right AND click it again on the bottom to get my personal info. Way too many clicks

Bixby ... is worthless for handsfree use

Does anyone HATE Bixby as much as I do ? I really wish someone from Samsung would read this. I hate it when Microsoft uses the public to beta test software, but Samsung has gone WAY TOO FAR! If the software is not ready, don't implement it yet!
I've been a Note user since my Note 2. I've ALWAYS relied on S-Voice to do two major things for me. I know a lot of people didn't like it, but it's been very helpful for me. One is creating an appointment while I'm driving. The other is calling customers while I'm driving. I assume you see the 'driving' portion of my need. I need and want it to work TOTALLY HANDS FREE! I use a Motorola bluetooth on my ear during my waking hours. I use it to call Bixby. I WILL NEVER hold that stupid button to talk to my phone. Very stupid idea Samsung! I will never have Samsung, Google, Amazon, or anyone else listen to me talking (or singing horribly) all of the time waiting for that magic phrase. Never happening! Sorry. my wife listens too closely as it is. I don't need the cloud to listen to me too! I ***** and gripe a lot!
On my old Note 4, and through the different versions of S-Voice (none of them publicly released for that device ... only installed via ROOT), there have been problems, but its worked almost 95% of the time. Now that I paid $1000 for the new flagship phone, I'm finding myself unable to do the same things I've been doing on my Note 2, Note 3, and Note 4 devices for the past five plus years. Since obviously I've had it more than 14 days, I can't return it.
Bixby DOES NOT work handsfree. Neither does Google Assistant either. But S-Voice actually did! Saying commands to Bixby like these produce very odd results. They worked perfectly with S-Voice.
"Create an appointment Joe Smith at 8am tomorrow morning" ... with Bixby, it will be named something like "APPOINTMENT JOE", but most likely it will be set to 8 o'clock TODAY and not TOMORROW! Sometimes it doesn't even pick up the time and it's set for 12 Noon! It also DOES NOT repeat your request, like S-Voice did. I have no idea while I'm driving if it got anything correct. So far, I've LOST a half dozen appointments because I don't know where, when, or even if they were saved. They disappeared after confirming for it to be saved. If it does get saved, it's almost always incorrect and I have to manually edit it.
Now I've tried the way they recommend making an appointment, by saying to open calendar ... blah blah ... but that doesn't work either. It stops to ask "what would you like to name this event?" ... well, you reply and it stops. So much for handsfree. I have to reach for my phone to complete creating an event, something so basic is beyond Samsung's Bixby.
This one really gets me riled up! When I say "Call Teresa Adams", sometimes it will pick up the contact correctly, but a majority of the time it won't. It thinks I said "Theresa" instead of "Teresa". The same thing happens with a lot of other names, like "Bird" instead of "Byrd", "Smith" instead of "Smyth". Or "Jon" instead of "John". It cannot find the contact to call ... meaning it's not longer handsfree. I have to pick up my phone to make a phone call while driving. In some states, it's illegal to even HOLD your phone while driving! These are only a few of the issues I've seen with Bixby. But the inconsistency of pulling names from your contacts is HIGHLY FRUSTRATING!
Another one that burns me up ... this happens for totally unknown reasons. I'll ask Bixby to do something, and the reply I get is just totally off the wall. It will come up and tell me I have to install UBER to do that. WHAT THE HELL? I don't need UBER for ANYTHING!
I had to rename my wife's contact. I guess have too many names with 'Teresa' along with a last name, It NEVER called the right one. It would find five other names (and not all were Theresa or Teresa). So I've rename her contact to 'THE WIFE', and yet ... a few weeks ago, I asked Bixby to call 'THE WIFE' and it dialed my neighbor 'Peewee' instead. He got a great chuckle out of the fact that my Note 8 thinks he's my wife. I find it disturbing it can't even do the VERY BASICS. If Bixby was my true personal assistant on the job. they would be fired instantly and shown the door.
What have I done to remedy this issue for myself? You're not going to believe it, but I still carry my Note 4 (with Verizon service) and use it to do the stuff my new and expensive Note 8 cannot handle. I use my Note 8 as my business phone, but Bixby is useless for me. I don't want my so called assistant to pull up photos I took last week based upon some request. That stuff I should do with it in my hands.
NOTE TO DEVELOPERS OF ALL ASSISTANT APPS:
1. Must be able to function COMPLETELY HANDS FREE using bluetooth.
2. Must be able to respond with audible prompts and continue the process after an answer has been given.
3. Must verify and read back the information received correctly BEFORE saving the event (or calling the number selected)
4. Must be able to save a calendar appointment/event WITHOUT asking which app to use to save it. (this is a Google Assistant issue more than Bixby). As far as I can tell ... ALL CALENDAR APPS access the SAME CALENDARS! Duh! Why ask? Bixby wants to save to the Samsung calendar, but that can be changed and it will remember which calendar to save the requested event (and future requests). It should ask which calendar to save it to ONLY once, and use that as a default.
5. If you're going to release a REPLACEMENT software program, at least make sure it's CAPABLE of doing what the previous version could do first.
I've ranted long enough ... but haven't said all there is. I find it sad that I have to carry around my 4 year old device to do something so basic that my new expensive device cannot do without being coddled into doing my bidding. I refuse to switch to another device. If I wasn't locked in, I'd go back to using the Note 4 and never give Samsung my money again.
Whew ... I feel a little better, but I know I'm only blowing off steam. No one who reads this will be able to change anything. So I'm stuck carrying around two devices for now to do the basic stuff I've been doing for the past five years. Feels like we're moving backwards, doesn't it?