I am using a Google Pixel 2 XL I have been using Google voice typing for some time now. It is not working better than when I started.
Shouldn't it learn what normal phrases I use? It's always using Siri for a period, constantly. I say PS it uses TS, a comma is tama etc.
Is there a setting that I am missing in my phone or otherwise that I can adjust.
Additionally, shouldn't it constantly keep improving itself based on what I speak into the voice typing???
I thought Google was big into AI? Definitely not with the Google voice typing!
What are your thoughts?
I've learned that if you insert punctuation, it helps out. For instance, speak your text and say "period", "question mark", "exclamation", etc. and continue speaking. I believe it speeds up and flows better when the texting engine is not trying to figure out how to display the text.
Are you using an iPhone because this is a Google Pixel 2 XL thread? Should work the same using the same punctuation method though.
t4duzan said:
I've learned that if you insert punctuation, it helps out. For instance, speak your text and say "period", "question mark", "exclamation", etc. and continue speaking. I believe it speeds up and flows better when the texting engine is not trying to figure out how to display the text.
Are you using an iPhone because this is a Google Pixel 2 XL thread? Should work the same using the same punctuation method though.
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I find it so odd that people assume I don't know where the hell I'm posting. I have updated the OP to reflect that I'm on a Google Pixel 2 XL with Google Voice typing.
Additionally, shouldn't it constantly keep improving itself based on what I speak into the voice typing???
I thought Google was big into AI? Definitely not with the Google voice typing.
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I find it so odd that people assume I don't know where the hell I'm posting. I have updated the OP to reflect that I'm on a Google Pixel 2 XL with Google Voice typing.
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Damn dude, I was going off of what you posted because you referenced Siri. We're not mind readers here.
Do you have an accent? I'm from New York but don't have that "New Yorker" accent and it's >90% correct for me.
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EeZeEpEe said:
Do you have an accent? I'm from New York but don't have that "New Yorker" accent and it's >90% correct for me.
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Actually, I am from the Midwest. I do enjoy a good East Coast dialect. I really try to remain crystal clear so there's no confusion on the words that are coming out of my mouth. Interesting observation WhatsApp seems to do the best job decoding my language. Any thoughts about that?
PS: Interesting observation. WhatsApp seems to do the best job decoding my language. Any thoughts about that?
Scottay5150 said:
PS: Interesting observation. WhatsApp seems to do the best job decoding my language. Any thoughts about that?
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Well I believe all voice to text is through Google unless labeled otherwise. Like the old Swype keyboard used Dragon voice.
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Just curious is it possible to port the new voice search like siri , to our ics bulids in the meantime we wait for jelly bean ??????
S E A R C H will help a whole lot http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668824
im not talking about s-voice my friend , i'm talking about the new google voice search thats in jelly bean.
I honestly could care less about voice search. The less that people read and type, the dumber they get. It's bad enough that people speak in smiley faces and lol's. Google already auto corrects our spelling.
Samsung or Google voice search?
Not sure he's referring to the Samsung voice search or Google's Jelly Bean improved search.
Jb google search is completely different here is what I believe you want video not the app
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kDsOtdRtG0Q
Right this is a good question, Can it be done for those of us who would enjoy that feature?
Iandv said:
I honestly could care less about voice search. The less that people read and type, the dumber they get. It's bad enough that people speak in smiley faces and lol's. Google already auto corrects our spelling.
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Smiley faces and lols are a good way to help people understand the intent when communicating in a text only environment. Too often people misconstrue what is being said because it sounds too blunt or rude. General language, spelling and grammar are definitely suffering beneath the onslaught of texting slang but don't throw the smiley faces under the bus, they aren't to blame.
But keeping to the topic at hand, voice search, voice texting and voice activate features are very helpful in a number of environments. And most of the voice search engines require that people speak properly as they don't usually respond to slang.
I was referring to text slang. Now that I think about it. If it's better than siri, I'll get it just to crush the feelings of my I phone slaved friends.
i meant google jelly bean new voice search, ported to ics roms if it can be done.
Esoteric68 said:
Smiley faces and lols are a good way to help people understand the intent when communicating in a text only environment. Too often people misconstrue what is being said because it sounds too blunt or rude. General language, spelling and grammar are definitely suffering beneath the onslaught of texting slang but don't throw the smiley faces under the bus, they aren't to blame.
But keeping to the topic at hand, voice search, voice texting and voice activate features are very helpful in a number of environments. And most of the voice search engines require that people speak properly as they don't usually respond to slang.
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I agree with you, you can't convey emotion, with text very well. The silly lol's and smiley's are one way to do that. Even with those things many people still take things the wrong way.
P.S. Lol
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JDinAZ74 said:
I agree with you, you can't convey emotion, with text very well. The silly lol's and smiley's are one way to do that. Even with those things many people still take things the wrong way.
P.S. Lol
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I see what you did there
Like the speed of the new the new search.
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PLEASE!
would be a tremendous hit! ICS already has a significant percent of representation in the android world, so if it is possible to port it would be awesome.
CM9 or AOKP definitely need this voice search!
Voice search has been ported for ICS. I'm about to try it in a bit
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1742652
Edit: my mistake I rushed to download and install but it's not the voice search. My bad
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Voice search has been ported for ICS. I'm about to try it in a bit
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1742652
Edit: my mistake I rushed to download and install but it's not the voice search. My bad
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Did you really just fail!!? How could you do this to everyone...
I dictate a fair amount of my text messages and, quite often, my standard English is replaced by slang. For example, when I say "want to" it is replaced by "wanna." Anyone know how to disable this "feature?"
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I dictate a fair amount of my text messages and, quite often, my standard English is replaced by slang. For example, when I say "want to" it is replaced by "wanna." Anyone know how to disable this "feature?"
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mine replaces "wanna" by "want to"
No one else with English OCD issues know of a workaround for this?
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No one else with English OCD issues know of a workaround for this?
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speak more clearly? as in, enunciate the gap between "want" and "to"
Itl be a few years before these new voice apps clearly repeat normal everyday slang /mumble mumble just as we state it.. All u can do is speak slow and clear and pronunciate words clearly
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Swype Beta was just updated to 1.4. Update details per Android Central, "added Living Language, which takes auto correction and word prediction to a new level with crowd sourced data". Other additions include, "The correction engine has gotten an upgrade, and the new Smart Editor now analyzes your entire sentence, flagging any errors for correction or suggesting the best substitution based on the context of what you're saying, not just the word order."
Please share your thoughts on this version. Download is here: http://beta.swype.com/
That video was hilarious
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Thanks Dave, I've always been a huge Swype fan, wouldn't buy a phone unless it was capable of using Swype. This version is pretty nice. Still playing with it. One thing I noticed is, it's not quite as easy to use punctuation as before (like anyone uses punctuation in texts anyway). I used to be able to tap on the last word I wrote and it would give me the option of ! , ? or whatever, now you have to long press the appropriate letter. Not a biggie just something I noticed. Still playing, but thanks for the heads up! :good:
I'm liking the built in themes!
Thanks for the info. Just updated. Hopefully the update will address the problem with personal dictionary disappearing followed by no longer able to add new words.
mkuo said:
Thanks for the info. Just updated. Hopefully the update will address the problem with personal dictionary disappearing followed by no longer able to add new words.
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same concern here..
mkuo said:
Thanks for the info. Just updated. Hopefully the update will address the problem with personal dictionary disappearing followed by no longer able to add new words.
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I've been messing with it for about an hour or so. The smart editor and next word prediction must take time to populate. As for the personal dictionary disappearing, I don't get why they have a register option, but no log in and sync dictionary option :thumbdown: As for adding words, I have had no issues there. One last thing I noticed is that Dragon seems a little more accurate. May be my imagination
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One thing I really wish they had was an option to disable Dragon and use Google for voice typing.
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I've been messing with it for about an hour or so. The smart editor and next word prediction must take time to populate. As for the personal dictionary disappearing, I don't get why they have a register option, but no log in and sync dictionary option :thumbdown: As for adding words, I have had no issues there. One last thing I noticed is that Dragon seems a little more accurate. May be my imagination
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There is login and the supposedly sync dictionary option. Under Swype connect, just tap into your registered email/account. Although I'm not sure how it works; I don't see any syncing between my two devices using the same account.
If this is your first time using Swype, then the dictionary disappearing issue I was referring to usually happens in a few days. Whatever triggered it I'm still unclear; I've tried with or without an account, checked and unchecked syncing option, and many other combinations... and it's usually after that disappearance the word addition ceases to work.
David Dee said:
One thing I really wish they had was an option to disable Dragon and use Google for voice typing.
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I've never had any issues with the voice typing. It works pretty good for me, even when I talk faster or stutter, it picks up remarkable well. Maybe it's just your Canadian accent :laugh:
RTBee said:
I've never had any issues with the voice typing. It works pretty good for me, even when I talk faster or stutter, it picks up remarkable well. Maybe it's just your Canadian accent :laugh:
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Lol! I just find Google voice typing works so well. Also I regularly hit the Dragon button by error due to its proximity to the enter button.
On another note, after a day of use, I have definitely noticed an improvement in word selection while swyping.
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Swiftkey Flow kills this.
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Swiftkey Flow kills this.
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I am always open minded to better options & different ideas, but if you are going to post a statement like this, please explain how you have arrived at this conclusion.
I don't think anyone can debate the fact that Swiftkey has the best prediction machine out there for regular typing. I actually use Swiftkey on my tablet, and when drafting long emails on my phone in landscape. Given this I was very excited to try Swiftkey Flow, which I did, for both versions. In my experience, Swiftkey still has a long way to go to catch Swype when it comes to swype typing. Swiftkey Flow is not as accurate or smooth as Swype when swyping. My typing speeds on Swype are 25% faster than when using Swiftkey Flow. This is not surprising given Swype has been doing this since it was founded almost 10 years ago in 2003.
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I am always open minded to better options & different ideas, but if you are going to post a statement like this, please explain how you have arrived at this conclusion.
I don't think anyone can debate the fact that Swiftkey has the best prediction machine out there for regular typing. I actually use Swiftkey on my tablet, and when drafting long emails on my phone in landscape. Given this I was very excited to try Swiftkey Flow, which I did, for both versions. In my experience, Swiftkey still has a long way to go to catch Swype when it comes to swype typing. Swiftkey Flow is not as accurate or smooth as Swype when swyping. My typing speeds on Swype are 25% faster than when using Swiftkey Flow. This is not surprising given Swype has been doing this since it was founded almost 10 years ago in 2003.
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OK..I like the fact it auto spaces after punctuation. I can tell it to learn how I type from SMS, FB, or Twit. It goes out and does it's thing and says it learned. I can now to "Swiping" words in shorthand that I used in GOsms. Genius. I can swipe left quick quick quick and it will start to remove text I may want to remove. The keyboard has a fresh look with various themes. All Swype boards look the same to me. I bid you to try the latest version of flow. ...61. It's much improved
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One thing I noticed is, it's not quite as easy to use punctuation as before (like anyone uses punctuation in texts anyway). I used to be able to tap on the last word I wrote and it would give me the option of ! , ? or whatever, now you have to long press the appropriate letter.
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If you like to swype, you can do a period-to-space swype (same for question, exclamation mark, comma, colon, and double-quote). You can also double-tap space to get period-space now. I'm not sure when that was added though.
I love the punct gestures; long press is too slow.
When you stop on a letter and wait for the menu to pop up with the available choices, it would be nice to see the uppercase version of the letter there as well.
Otherwise I have been using Swype since this summer when I got my SG3 and love it.
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OK..I like the fact it auto spaces after punctuation. I can tell it to learn how I type from SMS, FB, or Twit. It goes out and does it's thing and says it learned. I can now to "Swiping" words in shorthand that I used in GOsms. Genius. I can swipe left quick quick quick and it will start to remove text I may want to remove. The keyboard has a fresh look with various themes. All Swype boards look the same to me. I bid you to try the latest version of flow. ...61. It's much improved
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Swype also auto spaces after punctuation. I have tried both versions of Swiftkey flow. There is no brand loyalty here, I just want the best solution for me.
At the end of the day, this decision is personal and very much driven by what one is accustomed to. Let's bury the comparison discussion for now, the purpose of this thread is for discussion around the new Swype release.
Or just swype from the question mark or exclamation point to the space bar and it will input whatever special character your swyped from..... It's the easiest way.
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Swype also auto spaces after punctuation. I have tried both versions of Swiftkey flow. There is no brand loyalty here, I just want the best solution for me.
At the end of the day, this decision is personal and very much driven by what one is accustomed to. Let's bury the comparison discussion for now, the purpose of this thread is for discussion around the new Swype release.
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Sorry for thread jacking.
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Sorry for thread jacking.
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No worries, I appreciate your input and understanding of the desire to get back on topic.
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is it possible to theme swype? would it be hard to mode the app to be inverted lets say
Hey All:
There's some threads about contact recognition, but my issue isn't with Google misspelling a contact.
My one month old daughter's name is Raegan, as distinct from the former president's spelling of the name. Any idea how to make Google interpret texts to my wife, e.g. "How's Raegan doing?" to refer to my daughter and not to Mr. Reagan?
Even if it meant manually correcting the spelling on the watch a few times, I don't mind, but I can't figure out how to correct it on my watch.
Thanks!
--Databoy2k
Try hows my baby or hows my girl
Sorry couldn't resist.
Sleeepy2 said:
Try hows my baby or hows my girl
Sorry couldn't resist.
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Workarounds One day we'll get to a point where we don't need 'em.
Anyone else have a suggestion?
databoy2k said:
Hey All:
There's some threads about contact recognition, but my issue isn't with Google misspelling a contact.
My one month old daughter's name is Raegan, as distinct from the former president's spelling of the name. Any idea how to make Google interpret texts to my wife, e.g. "How's Raegan doing?" to refer to my daughter and not to Mr. Reagan?
Even if it meant manually correcting the spelling on the watch a few times, I don't mind, but I can't figure out how to correct it on my watch.
Thanks!
--Databoy2k
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I know it's not what you're looking for, but I have been able to successfully (most of the time) spell out words Android won't recognize. You could try it, Ok Google - Send text to [contact] - "how's R-A-E-G-A-N doing, question mark."
In fact I just tried it and it worked. Unfortunately since you're spelling it out for Wear, it won't automatically capitalize the name, and I had no success in dictating "capitol R."
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