Does anyone else use Svox text to speech with their Dinc? I love the voices with this app, but their is apparently a problem between it and the navigator. Anyone have a fix or suggestion of a similar app? Thanks up front.
bigtee101 said:
Does anyone else use Svox text to speech with their Dinc? I love the voices with this app, but their is apparently a problem between it and the navigator. Anyone have a fix or suggestion of a similar app? Thanks up front.
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I have not used it. Can you describe the "problem" to those of us that are not familiar with it?
Instead of the speech reading aloud directions it seems to reading out html code. I believe it's a problem with the app. There are several complaints on the market comments.
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Okay heres the deal i text message alot when im driving and i use bluetooth headsets so i can hear music and i can also talk. so i there an app out there where i can speak and it can write what im saying on the phone and send it as a text message. tried google voice and dont work for me. can anyone point me to the right direction please? thanks in advance
jgu71424 said:
Okay heres the deal i text message alot when im driving and i use bluetooth headsets so i can hear music and i can also talk. so i there an app out there where i can speak and it can write what im saying on the phone and send it as a text message. tried google voice and dont work for me. can anyone point me to the right direction please? thanks in advance
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Perhaps Voice on the Go, I use it on my HD2 and it works well
Here's the link: http://consumer.voiceonthego.com/VOGOPortal/
Youd more than likely have to pay for a service like Voice To Go for something like that. It's just that there aren't any good enough programs out right now that can do this for you. Some have better luck than others, but it's all up to you. Look up Microsoft TellMe because it does have that feature, but try it yourself and see how it works for you. Beyond that I can't really suggest anything else.
Hi all!
I'm looking for a long time for this simple function:
I would like to have an app, that uses TTS (text to speech) to read out a just received GTalk message.
I found a lot of apps that can read SMS text messages. But i use GTalk more than SMS.
Am I blind? Is it to easy? I can't find a solution for that...
Any suggestions?
btw: i'm using htc magic with cyanogenmod 6 atm.
Thanks!
Bye, Marc.
Nobody?
Too easy or to difficult?
There has to be some way, that Android is reading my GTalk messages while i'm riding the bike and listening to music...
Any Ideas?
Thanks, bye, Marc.
P.S.: Best i found until now is to activate "talkback". Pro: it reads incomming GTalk msgs, con: it reads EVERYTHING... :-/
A lot time passed by. Haven't found something yet.
Somebody found/developed something for this?
Ciao, Marc.
SMS + Car
There is an app, SMS+Car, now i'm using the demo and looks it works, the full version isn't free.
regards
Blaclmantoine said:
There is an app, SMS+Car, now i'm using the demo and looks it works, the full version isn't free.
regards
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I guess you mean this app: "SMS, my Car and Me"? Yes, will give it a try.
There is also: "a2dpvolume", they are working on gtalk implementation atm.
I have installed the leaked Froyo release, and reinstalled all apps and settings using instuctions found on this forum. That all went very smoothly, so, thanks to the people here. I have to report one error in the system that has been reported in other forums many times. The new froyo voice actions from voice search do not work properly or at all in some cases. The new voice search understands my voice perfectly, but then fails to perform the voice activated commands ("voice actions") as google intended. If i say "Call John Smith", voice search performs a google search for the phrase "call john smith", rather than calling John Smith (John Smith would be a google contact). I spent quite some time looking for a solution but found none that work. Disabling contact sync, deleting the contact cache and resyncing from gmail does not work. I doublt I will be the only one who filnds this problem. If anyone is aware of a fix for this, please post a link.
Thanks
mikechartre said:
I have installed the leaked Froyo release, and reinstalled all apps and settings using instuctions found on this forum. That all went very smoothly, so, thanks to the people here. I have to report one error in the system that has been reported in other forums many times. The new froyo voice actions from voice search do not work properly or at all in some cases. The new voice search understands my voice perfectly, but then fails to perform the voice activated commands ("voice actions") as google intended. If i say "Call John Smith", voice search performs a google search for the phrase "call john smith", rather than calling John Smith (John Smith would be a google contact). I spent quite some time looking for a solution but found none that work. Disabling contact sync, deleting the contact cache and resyncing from gmail does not work. I doublt I will be the only one who filnds this problem. If anyone is aware of a fix for this, please post a link.
Thanks
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It's not a bug or a problem as a lot of people think of it. Voice search and Voice commands have been split in the Mesmerize build. This is not like a regular Google Vanilla build. Both work, and work very well, just not as most people are used to. I've posted a couple of replies to this same type of "problem" before, but you have explained yourself a lot better than most people. I assume that you had experience with other Android phones with both of these features built in to one application. Personally, this is my first and only Android so it's all that I am used to.
I hope this helps explain things and help you with the issue. It's helped other people in the past.
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It's not a bug or a problem as a lot of people think of it. Voice search and Voice commands have been split in the Mesmerize build. This is not like a regular Google Vanilla build. Both work, and work very well, just not as most people are used to. I've posted a couple of replies to this same type of "problem" before, but you have explained yourself a lot better than most people. I assume that you had experience with other Android phones with both of these features built in to one application. Personally, this is my first and only Android so it's all that I am used to.
I hope this helps explain things and help you with the issue. It's helped other people in the past.
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Does that mean there's a separate application for Voice Actions?
phedelt82,
I am alittle confused as to what you are saying, Are you referring to the Nuance voice commands as separate app. I can get that to work, but it is sluggish and less accurate than the google search version. There is a google video demonstrating voice actions from inside of voice search. I think this is supposed to be part of the stock rom, no need to download a separate app. That said there is an upgrade on the market for google search that becomes available once on 2.2. With or without this, the prolem still exists.
My understanding is that in Froyo, the google search app shound first interperate the words that are being spoken. Then based on what phrase it desides has been said either performs a google search on the phrase, or if the phrase contained the right opening keyword, such as "call" or "email" or "map" or "directions", it issues a 'voice action' command to the associated app. Eclair did this with some apps such as calling reasonably well right from the stock google voice search. In Froyo, the abilty of voice search to understand what is being said I would say is improved. However, it drops the ball when it comes to passing the intended command to the app. Oddly, It will call any resturant or bussiness not in my contacts with total reliability. Something is wrong possibly when the voice search recognises the keyword "call", executes the voice action assoicated with "call" (the dailer) and then finally gets confused when it somehow fails to find the contact requested, even though it is in the google contacts.
I was wondering if I am the only one with the problem of the market, or appbrain or any other wifi app FCing randomly? Also if enabling debugging and system lagfix in CWM recovery could b my problem? Thnx in advance and fo all the excellent work the devs have done on these ROMs and Kernels.
Sent from my Mesmerize using XDA,s awesome app
I had a modem crash error xD. Factory reset fixed it. Not a big deal at all. >.>
I realize the this is a Meserize forum but I am having the exact same problem with my Verizon Fascinate that I've update the to a leaked Froyo. Other voice commands seem to work fine and "Call <business name>" works great! But if I try "Call John Smith work1" then it does a google web search for that instead of dialing that phone book entry! It's very frustrating...
I'd be willing to bet that it's the same problem and will have the same solution (since the phones are so related). So I hoope someone has fix for this.
londroid said:
I realize the this is a Meserize forum but I am having the exact same problem with my Verizon Fascinate that I've update the to a leaked Froyo. Other voice commands seem to work fine and "Call <business name>" works great! But if I try "Call John Smith work1" then it does a google web search for that instead of dialing that phone book entry! It's very frustrating...
I'd be willing to bet that it's the same problem and will have the same solution (since the phones are so related). So I hoope someone has fix for this.
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This appears to be a common issue and so far I haven't found anyone with an answer other than to use a different app.
I have still been unable to figure this out. I have found that the people I know with HTC's and froyo or DroidX and some others do not have this problem. Did Samsung somehow create this bug putting it into touchwiz, or is this possible a defect due to the non official release?
phidelt82 said:
It's not a bug or a problem as a lot of people think of it. Voice search and Voice commands have been split in the Mesmerize build. This is not like a regular Google Vanilla build. Both work, and work very well, just not as most people are used to. I've posted a couple of replies to this same type of "problem" before, but you have explained yourself a lot better than most people. I assume that you had experience with other Android phones with both of these features built in to one application. Personally, this is my first and only Android so it's all that I am used to.
I hope this helps explain things and help you with the issue. It's helped other people in the past.
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phidelt82, can you explain what you mean by the Voice Search and Voice Actions being split? If they are split, does that mean they can be accessed separately?
I'm looking for an app that can read my epub books aloud.
I've tried this one ( https://market.android.com/details?id=v00032.com.wordplayer&feature=search_result ) but the voice is just plain text to speech; the voice is downright awful. Not only that, but there's no pause, and it only starts at the beginning of a chapter.
I know Moon+ also does it, but it's $5. Has anyone used the text to speech on it and can comment on how well it works? I'd love to hear how it sounds, but I haven't found any videos on YouTube etc of this feature being used. If the voice is just as bad as WordPlayer, I'd rather not waste the $5. And 15 minutes seems too hasty to test this out.
Is there any other way to have epub books read aloud via some Android app?
if yuor talking about that female sounding death voice then it's android itself that does it. I dunno if theres a way to change it.
patass said:
if yuor talking about that female sounding death voice
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LOL!!!! Yeah that one
Anyone have any more input?
i'm sure i read about an app that has other voices that can be used for this. i believe it was a paid app but i have no idea what it was, sorry
damngood98 said:
i'm sure i read about an app that has other voices that can be used for this. i believe it was a paid app but i have no idea what it was, sorry
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Aye, just found the "SVOX" ones. But very very expensive....
Yes, SVOX Classic. Each language pack costs $3
But still you will not get a feel of audio books. The book reading app needs to incorporate some intelligence.
ahaider7 said:
But still you will not get a feel of audio books. The book reading app needs to incorporate some intelligence.
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What do you mean?
ahaider7 said:
The book reading app needs to incorporate some intelligence.
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Is there a better way of having epub books read aloud via some Android app?
I just installed a ROM with S Voice and Im totally digging it. I did a google search and I see that there is some information, but very limited. Anyone know what all S Voice can do?
Decepticaons said:
I just installed a ROM with S Voice and Im totally digging it. I did a google search and I see that there is some information, but very limited. Anyone know what all S Voice can do?
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It's basically Samsung's answer to Apple's Siri. Though I don't think it is as advanced, but not really sure. I only messed around with it briefly on SkyICS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_Voice
Little comparison between the 2 - http://phandroid.com/2012/06/13/face-off-samsung-galaxy-s3s-s-voice-vs-iphone-4ss-siri-video/
Played around with it for a few minutes.
-Made a call
-Sent a text
-Set an alarm
All 3 without a single issue, voice recognition was great and I was mumbling quietly for the majority of commands including the actual text.
You can also use "Navigate to x" and "What is the weather".
If anyone find a comprehensive list of commands could you please post a link?
Thank you
egps2 said:
You can also use "Navigate to x" and "What is the weather".
If anyone find a comprehensive list of commands could you please post a link?
Thank you
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i have used command's like "How is weather today?" "Where can I get pizza or gas?" "How does my day look?" and I got right answers.
The only issue I had was with Voice command integration. I have a Blueant Q2 and "Phone Command" should automatically invoke S-Voice. 8 out of 10 times it did not work and that's probably because it has not been properly integrated in S2. I am sure it works well in S3.